Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“Magic is a cliche, but what do you call it when you enter a place and you can pretend you're anywhere and… — Wayne Gladstone Copy Share Image
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“But to follow Jesus is not to imitate him, for following him does not mean becoming a Jesus oneself. Nor does it… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I lift my voice against these audacious practices and these infamous fashions, and I pray that you who have daughters in Zion… — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
“Such words are pleasing in the ear of the father of spirits. He is not a God to accept the flattery which… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Masoretic ... was the system devised by the Masoretic family of Ben-Asher ... The most important editions of the Hebrew Bible, from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
“It was my mother, my frequent co-conspirator in the kitchen and my conduit to our past, who suggested the means to convey… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
There are types of energy which lie outside the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately, these research efforts have not been given recognition. For the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the… — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image
By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963.… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain’s list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth.… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image