Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
