As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle… — Pamela Ribon Copy Share Image
When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The… — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy… — Adam Thirlwell Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic?… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Nobody likes cravens,” he said uncomfortably. “I wish we hadn’t helped him. What if they think we’re craven too?” "You're too stupid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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