Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine Copy Share Image
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire… — Metrodorus of Chios Copy Share Image
Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients… — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
