Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy,… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't… — Yuu Watase Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms. — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if… — Poemen Copy Share Image
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this:… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me―too roughly―right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. — Homer Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image