Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I tend to look at the good things about what's going on in life, and I do that the best I can.… — Common Copy Share Image
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to… — John Green Copy Share Image
it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In one afternoon, my entire life shattered and then all of a sudden this great guy comes along like some mythical knight… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice -… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
