Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Commitment cannot be taught; it can only be caught. I refer to the crusading spirit. Without the crusading spirit, you may have… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he… — Peter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision . — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the… — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses.… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's… — Confucius Copy Share Image