The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade,… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and,… — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike… — MIke Dooley Copy Share Image
A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
