Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it. — Stephen Hales Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits?… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
