The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil.… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person… — Scott Thompson 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
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange,… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Oh God just look at me now... one night opens words and utters pain... I cannot begin to explain to you... this...… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image