A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive -… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all… — Ruth Bell Copy Share Image
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace… — Renita J. Weems Copy Share Image
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“what is JUST in a world you’ve ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists.… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
