Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors,… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned… — P.W. Catanese Copy Share Image
One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets.… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
