The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro Copy Share Image
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society)… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
