I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
