This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Oh my gosh! I was a hamster on the conditioned wheel of self-improvement. I never truly respected or valued my uniqueness as… — Penny De Villiers Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
“I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
We always want to compare someone with someone else, whatever you do there will always be that comparison. — Raul Jimenez Copy Share Image
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way. — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.” — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
