Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there. — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
