Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven!… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation… — Allen West Copy Share Image
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits To bear thee to the battle back;-- Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,-- Thy dog would… — Thomas Kibble Hervey Copy Share Image
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures,… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image