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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image