Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym,… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The brilliant costume designer Mary Zorphres had done all this research on West Texas in 1980. Every woman looked like that. At… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him… — Sam Cassell Copy Share Image
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I know, baby. I feel the same way about you. Those words never convey what goes through my mind and heart every… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image