The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent. — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it,… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book. — Hansie Cronje Copy Share Image
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
