A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale?… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't… — Lester Flatt Copy Share Image
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing… — Joe De Sena Copy Share Image
Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's… — Dom Thomas Copy Share Image
