I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male… — Judith Stacey Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whenever any argument comes up, you remind her, "You cheated on me." Your relationship has no chance. You agreed to set it… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image