Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family… — Melinda Blau Copy Share Image
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in… — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Jason [Nash] is just someone that I've known socially and through his stand-up, seeing him do different comedy shows, and I just… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm… — Christa B. Allen Copy Share Image
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin,… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image