OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in… — Carol D. Leonnig Copy Share Image
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches.… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image