Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He calls his brother. it is the wrong brother from whom to seek consolation, but what can he do? When it comes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them,… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image