I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility . — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally the smart thing to do to solve your economic woes is to demonize the Democrats. And of course, Sarah Palin is… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist? — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words,… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart. — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it? — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do. — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer.… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I'd rather be the half of us, the least of you, the best of me; and I will be - I'll be… — Aly Michalka Copy Share Image
Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion… — Sid Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image