Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages,… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have… — Mary Kissel Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists… — Origen Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Regarding the passage on p. 163 of the 'Gleanings': The creatures which Bahá'u'lláh states to be found on every planet cannot be… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage.… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
