There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can… — George Will Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
