But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
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And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
