All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“I can resolve your perplexity,’ said Fianosther. ‘Your booth occupies the site of the old gibbet, and has absorbed unlucky essences. But… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
