I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
...those called by Christ's name should order their lives. They should persevere in prayers and supplications and, in imitation of the angels,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached.… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of… — Mervyn B. Arnold Copy Share Image
Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image