Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Men are angry at women because they aren't doing what they are supposed to do, which is support men. They are in… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits-men… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study -… — Salvatore J. Cordileone Copy Share Image
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image