Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Copy Share Image
We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce.… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human… you are generous,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Water, water, water…There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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