Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't… — Alvin Holmes Copy Share Image
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John… — Tom Paxton Copy Share Image
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence… — Abraham J. Twerski Copy Share Image
You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Rufus Dawes Copy Share Image
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
