A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But… — Edward Bloor Copy Share Image
The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny.… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of… — Patrick David Wall Copy Share Image
No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The general government is proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting religion; and it may be thought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It’s not just me. Look around. — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly;… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
