Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have… — Charles Goodyear Copy Share Image
Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.” “If you had let me finish,” Skulduggery… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
While most men don't have first-hand experience with gender-based discrimination, we can still be powerful allies for advancing women's rights. We need… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows",… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both man and God", he said, "If either had… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so… — F.X. Toole Copy Share Image
No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I've seen men and women who were fit for combat that I wanted to fight beside, and men and women who I… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image