All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it.… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone -… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don’t have to exercise a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
After her came jolly June, arrayed All in green leaves, as he a player were; Yet in his time he wrought as… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers,… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image