If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks… — James Dillet Freeman Copy Share Image
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and… — James Allen Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth,… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our… — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition...… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Each day There's A Decision That Each Of Us Has To Make, For Each Of Us Needs To Decide For Ourselves, Whether… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
If you've got a desire to achieve something, then keep going until you achieve it. It's not always possible and things might… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image