Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Even Dad likes it," said Caddy, and her father agreed that he did. In a way. Being a broad-minded, tolerant, artistic sort… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The only difference between tattooed people and non tattooed people is tattooed people don't care if you're not tattooed. — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
The nicest people I've ever met were covered in tattoos and piercings. The most judgmental people I've met are the ones who… — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
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