The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness… My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try… — Max Frisch 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
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to… — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from… — Oscar Micheaux Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough… — Dorothy Parker 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
So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image