When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the… — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California,… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done,… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable… — Andreas Libavius Copy Share Image
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.] — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is… — Pindar Copy Share Image
I've always had the mindset that you've got to be creative and not moan or whinge at what you're given. — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against… — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron. — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image