I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
To navigate through these mists of darkness we need the iron rod, which represents the word of God (see 1 Nephi 15:23-24).… — Mary N. Cook Copy Share Image
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
It's such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. If you look through the Bible, there's a whole host of… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project,… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
However, when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldn’t say that’s a bad choice. The endorphins released during… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image