I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks. — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into… — W. C. Brownell Copy Share Image
Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage,… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb.… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
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