“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the… — Rain Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to… — Jerry I. Porras Copy Share Image
We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
