There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton Copy Share Image
She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
