“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above,… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
Truth is the greatest weapon to hold against any kind of enemy. Every evil is afraid of TRUTH. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and… — Marghanita Laski Copy Share Image
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
