The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on… — Megan Charpentier Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough.… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to… — Dick Latvala Copy Share Image
She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there."… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
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If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could… — Jack White Copy Share Image
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The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image