All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and… — Alice Stone Blackwell Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life.… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set.… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call… — Mark Felt Copy Share Image
It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops. — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image