“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his… — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I started bettysbattle.org, which is a charity in honor of my mom, associated with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a charity that is… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily… — Lee Ritenour Copy Share Image
There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia,… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley,… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin,… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything… — 2 Chainz Copy Share Image