Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Living In the Past Only Leads You To Misery. You Play With Those Who Truly Care, But You're Too Busy Caring For… — Laura Copy Share Image
I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which… — Osho Copy Share Image
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
