We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those… — Henri Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity,… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was Herzog, the man himself. He was so welcoming and kind and not at all the persona you'd seen in a… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
If the Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses effectiveness in this life. If the non-Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image