A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
As one who over taken by the end Gives up his errand, and lets death descend Upon him where he is, with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For months it hasn't known the taste of steel Washed down with rusty water in a tin. But standing outdoors hungry, in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That strange feeling we had inthe war. Have you found anything in your lives since toequal it in strength? A sort of… — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I fear me you but warm the starvèd snake, Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deepcalls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Live, you son of a bitch. You're gonna live if I have to blow your brains out. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
God is not necessary to createculpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Soft are the hands of Love, but what soft hands clutched at the thorny ground, scratched like a small white ferret or… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image