Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win?… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed… — James Levine Copy Share Image
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk… — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Copy Share Image
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and… — Pearl White Copy Share Image
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature, I think it's strange as hell, but if that's… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
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