“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all… — Anonymous 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
I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience,… — Meg Rosoff 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
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
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical… — Phil Elvrum 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
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor… — John Smith Copy Share Image
The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten… — Jack London 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
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker 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
