Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families,… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image