. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,'… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually,… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your… — Sherry Yard Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he… — Vivian Balakrishnan Copy Share Image
What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
