With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great… — William Banting Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit. — Charles Macaulay Copy Share Image
Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
