Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved,… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch,… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm around 6'4' and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I've got to give it up… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have… — Plautus Copy Share Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
