Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning… — Raphael Copy Share Image
I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers… — Roger Clemens Copy Share Image
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with… — Liona Boyd Copy Share Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the… — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet… — Zheng Bijian Copy Share Image
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former… — Krista Allen Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
