I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than… — William James Copy Share Image
To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
I specially want to have young women not to wait as I did until my children were grown, but young women to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just… — Tim Bajarin Copy Share Image
I am a deeply religious person, but I belong to no denomination. I follow the spirit of God's law, not the letter… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love,… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I pray for revival I pray first for the most radical thing: The utter devotion and allegiance of your hearts to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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