Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined… — Albert L. Gray Copy Share Image
Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Keep your shirt on," she said with a laugh at her bad joke. "Your clothes are at the laundry. They'll deliver them… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap."… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not… — Banks Copy Share Image
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