To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger 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
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
