As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions,… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off,… — Eskeerdo Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image