There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will Copy Share Image
Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
