Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
As soon as I gave birth, I had, like, 20 kilos, which I think is about 50 lbs., and I realized, 'Oh… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“It is great to celebrate birthday, but you know what is the greatest?, is to remember our mother who sacrified to gave… — Elmitch Alarcio Copy Share Image
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
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