The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained… — Plato Copy Share Image
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.” The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. “Yes.… — S.W. Lothian Copy Share Image
However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image