The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God. — Nicole Polizzi Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and… — Shakira Copy Share Image
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants. — Babatunde Fashola Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image