The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 - I never thought I'd see that… — Felipe Alou Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under His wing of comfort and calms my… — Linda Dillow Copy Share Image
When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music.… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a…turkey…in the barn-yard but looked grave when… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
My body is full of graves. A sepulcher is dug up, and a young girl comes out of it with her dusty… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image