The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it — Nancy Giles Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go,… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time? — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. — William Bartram Copy Share Image
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
