Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which… — Harold Percival Copy Share Image
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the system of procession… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when… — Jason Kennedy Copy Share Image
I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made,… — Jean-Marc Bustamante Copy Share Image
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
A life changing event comes when we are not looking.Inspired and blessed are we by the presence of Eckart Tolle among us.Thank… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image