Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry…… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast.… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Curran and Kate stood by the door. “I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check on me,” she said.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women.… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Fine. I understand,” she said with a little shrug, turning her head slightly so he couldn’t see her eyes. “If it’s really… — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“I tried, Tess. I really did. I did everything you asked of me. I did everything a man in love would do… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Understand that when the beast within you succeeds again in paralyzing into unending incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to try… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image