Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance. — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are… — Hal Hellman Copy Share Image
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
