Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically:… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
