Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do my best to look at the bigger picture and not sweat the small stuff. I make it a point to… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be… — Salaam Remi Copy Share Image
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
