See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off… — Nathaniel Culverwell 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
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread…I believe… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth… — Plato Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team function, with the emphasis being on the defender's… — Rinus Michels Copy Share Image
A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the… — Howard Thurman 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
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image