All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many,… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
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I don't think that I have been treated kindly or fairly by a certain portion of the gay community. Most of the… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
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I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image