The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety — Moliere Copy Share Image
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers… — George Packer Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
