But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with… — William Peter Hamilton Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and - owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation - over a… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it’s not owing like a debt to one person—it’s really… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
