'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief… — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance… — Martin Nolan Copy Share Image
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road.… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image