The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we… — Martyn Copy Share Image
..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration… — Hans Berger Copy Share Image
If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points.… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion,… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to… — Adolphe Menjou Copy Share Image
The short story is so much about inevitability and this feeling that things always had to be this one way, and I… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to… — David McClelland Copy Share Image
I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The enemy advances and you tremble. They've better numbers, you say. Better weapons. Better training. But I do not fear, and neither… — Israel Putnam Copy Share Image