The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls,… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folks, we are in the midst of dangerous times like you cannot believe, and Donald J. Trump is the target. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown,… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
We have an online clothing boutique called Pink Candy Boutique that we manage in the midst of all of this, and trying… — Amber Cope Copy Share Image
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds. — Brandon Heath Copy Share Image
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office,… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image