What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is… — Samuel Willard Copy Share Image
As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate. — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
