Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary:… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring.… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which… — Gerd Sommerhoff Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
