The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other… The whole purpose of life is to live… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of… — Kel Mitchell Copy Share Image
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas,… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems… — Michael Redd Copy Share Image
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives. — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't live by 'The Rules' you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so… — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image