What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take… — Seth Copy Share Image
I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You exist in time: future, present, and past. This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty.… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a… — Gerard Cox Copy Share Image
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless,… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect,… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
There's this progress, incredible progress of technology, everything is figured out, everything is known, everything is systematic and under control, communication is… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
