Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Jim eyed me for a couple of seconds, then got off the bed and went to curl up on the pile of… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a… — Nolan Sotillo Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons… — William Powell Copy Share Image
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks. — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years. — Morgan Griffith Copy Share Image
As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read… — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image