I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate… — Henry Kett Copy Share Image
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery… — John M. Tobin, Jr Copy Share Image
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
"Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her tail in… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
I assured the prime minister, my administration will work hard to lay the foundation of peace in the Middle - to work… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age:… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without… — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image