I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear… — Zara Phillips Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
