From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image