It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington 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 holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will… — Alex Johnston Copy Share Image
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
“The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
