Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I was in a real conservative area just outside of Chicago recently. And this guy's like, 'Hey, Arj, you're from San Francisco.… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we… — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you… — Jeremy Keith Copy Share Image
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The issue of gay marriage has reached the Supreme Court and observers are analyzing every detail to predict how each justice will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You about to play an opponent who is either bigger, stronger, faster or more experienced than you. Is there any hope at… — Micah Miller Copy Share Image
As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong:… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image