As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage… — Benjamin Greene Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned,… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
