Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen,… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
