In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual… — Henry Dunant Copy Share Image
There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there.… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
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