And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy,… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
“The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more… — Roy Montgomery Copy Share Image
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been… — John Newton Copy Share Image
You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
My friends ... they usually rib me about how I just sleep in and watch Oprah and that I don't really have… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining… — Mark Tooley Copy Share Image
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. — William Feather Copy Share Image
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work,… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
