I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
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The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you think 'loading the dishwasher' means 'getting your wife drunk', you might be a redneck — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
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It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is. — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
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When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday,… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Fortunately, most of my friends in comedy that smoke pot are almost as open about it as I am, and in some… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
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The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image