...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description.… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In terms of - my relationship with so many, many young people. I would - I would guess that there are many… — Jerry Sandusky Copy Share Image
No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
The report also said that there wasn't agreement among the 17 agencies. When the FBI came out - they came out -… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first…Like when we first started talking on the phone, he… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image