The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male… — Judith Stacey Copy Share Image
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Isaac R. Trimble Copy Share Image
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In… — Carl Theodor Dreyer Copy Share Image
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it. — David Giuntoli Copy Share Image
I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
