Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill… — Frank Porter Graham Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak,… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Concerns for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many… — Jeh Johnson Copy Share Image
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Just like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance round it throws, Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose, And in the midst of… — 6th Viscount Strangford Percy Smythe Copy Share Image
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
