They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image