The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.'… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren't quite working. "What's your name?" "Stig." "Stick?" she asked, half ready to believe it.… — Kimberly Karalius Copy Share Image
And then as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have… — Bruce Cockburn 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
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“My dad’s name is Jim, and my mother thought their names starting with the same letter was just further proof that they… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look… — Daniel Johnnes Copy Share Image
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image