The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is everything I thought it would be; being the Olympic champion, it definitely is an amazing feeling. And I give all… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is in Glory occupied with us should lead us into a holy life which glorifies… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; Rise… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I've broken it down to three basic types of people in gangs. You have the first type, the most dangerous, which are… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Learn, brethren, before it be too late, that ‘without Christ you can do nothing:’ that ‘all your fresh springs are in him:’… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
When you face two options and each seems to please God, consider the one that displays God's glory, power and strength. This… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle.… — Troy Perry Copy Share Image
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity,… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God left us the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we… — Thelma Wells Copy Share Image
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