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
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point. — Yasmin Copy Share Image
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
