Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth. — Laozi Copy Share Image
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so… — Laura Marano Copy Share Image
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
