The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the ghastliest disease endemic to mosquitia is Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, sometimes called white leprosy, caused by the bite of an infected sand… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not.… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Comedy can be silly and gross and offensive, as long as there's sort of a point. You can make a joke that,… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
This whole idea of too much TV, I think is really gross. Because I feel like it's mostly white men who are… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we… — George Takei Copy Share Image
By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive:… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I really just think it's disgusting when people - to actually say that you want to be famous, it's just gross. There's… — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents'… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so.… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook… — Brenda Song Copy Share Image
In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image