Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry… — Issan Dorsey Copy Share Image
You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I may not be the most physical player, that's not my nature. But I am a competitor and I play as hard… — Pau Gasol Copy Share Image
While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications.… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Angelina Jolie may get him [Antonio Banderas] in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us. — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
One thing I want to emphasize is that, like any human being, we can discuss our view of the economy and the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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