The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to the root… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women)… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Africa with 400 million Black People can do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image