Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which… — Duncan Ferguson Copy Share Image
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is freedom,' said the instructress, 'it's something very wintry, and cannot be borne for long. One must always keep moving, as… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish it were a simpler world. I love and hate people. When I say I hate people, I really truly… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
“It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Horace Copy Share Image
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
We have to have an aggressive, long-term plan to tackle our nation’s debt, but attempting to balance the budget on the backs… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image