The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux. — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which… — Rosamond Marshall Copy Share Image
Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image