When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time. — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the… — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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
I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier? — Laozi Copy Share Image
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make… — Joey Lauren Adams Copy Share Image
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image