The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win. — Brett Hull Copy Share Image
People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Don't lose the dreams inside your head They'll only be there until you're dead Dream — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain… — Mark Sisson Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
In life, (the fashion world) is full of sharks. In this world the young girls lose themselves; become the property of others,… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on. — Drew Chadwick Copy Share Image
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life! — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Set up rules for when you will "give" not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I'll help with college. I'll… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
