Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
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Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image