Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I don't know where to find a good guy. I just think that they're around and I think you have to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn’t share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I’ll have to fight him?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important… — Stacy Peralta Copy Share Image
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the… — John McGinnis Copy Share Image
I think Iran deal is on life support, I'll put it that way, but I'm not here to declare one way or… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does. — Sidney Mohede Copy Share Image
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
