From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I tread towards a dim shimmer on the horizon's edge, But as I persist, its glow seems to dim A fading promise,… — Rolf van der Wind Copy Share Image
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“How do you make someone love you? For the very young, there can be nothing harder in the world. You may try… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
