Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us… — Wayne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my… — Zona Gale Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork,… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,… — Reyner Banham Copy Share Image
Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough… IF you understand God's grace — Carl Lentz Copy Share Image
I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image