Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can… — Randy McKay Copy Share Image
Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned,… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos,… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness…Presently, over 60 percent… — Milward L. Simpson Copy Share Image
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire… — Barry Neil Kaufman Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right… — Thelma Ritter Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by,… — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given… — Seth Copy Share Image
One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
And what I tell people is this - as a citizen of this country, there are certain rights that are given to… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
