The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded;… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied to the extent that I see everything I have as a gift from God. Here is the truth:… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. …The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must… — William Jay Youmans Copy Share Image
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it… — Boep Joeng Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image