My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not… — Tom Coburn 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
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
A man that does not possess the willingness, patience and strength to break down a wall made of steel, does not deserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship. I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back. I wanted someone… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit… — Irin Carmon Copy Share Image
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