Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test.… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd… — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Where on earth did you come from, baby?” Frey's brows drew together and he asked softly back, "Pardon?" My thumb stroked his… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“We keep on saying Africa is cursed, because we are suffering , but Africa is not cursed . Africa is blessed with… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
To do so is to fulfill our finest nature, to do less is to lose our chance to experience the full meaning… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
“Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment,… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“ i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Take me from this earth an endless night- this, the end of life. From the dark I feel your lips and taste… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless;… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
