Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
It's so funny - my mom when I am dating someone new, all she will get is the name, first and last,… — Nico Tortorella Copy Share Image
It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam… — Steven-Elliot Altman Copy Share Image
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny,… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt, — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
