To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I've got a height advantage over everyone but when they do get at me I can fight just as well inside. — Callum Smith Copy Share Image
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on,… — Crystal Dunn Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your… — Kirby Puckett Copy Share Image
One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin,… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially… — Tomas Berdych Copy Share Image
I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
