PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
“He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm at a really good spot in my career, to the point where I feel like I could explode at any moment.… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or not. It makes a big difference. It makes… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It makes people feel good to build somethin big. Makes people feel like they're makin progress, I reckon. Progress toward what? It… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes… — Tara Subkoff Copy Share Image
Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
“So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Whether you want to exercise more often, or you're hoping to become debt-free, real change happens in stages. Slow and steady progress… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines.… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The goal is to keep the dialogue open. There are issues in the USA that a lot of people feel strongly about.… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands… — Edward Joseph Young Copy Share Image