Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Mere liye mera Duniya ho Tum, Cho k jo Guzre wo Hawa ho Tum, Maine jo Manga wo Dua ho Tum, Kya… — Sweety Copy Share Image
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress,… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the… — Virgilio S. Almario Copy Share Image
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed… — Jack H. Goaslind Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image