We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
White-on-black shootings evoke America's history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but… — Bodie Thoene Copy Share Image
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe?… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
“Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.” — LeeAnn Taylor Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
