Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you say I love you, you are making a promise with someone else's heart. You should honor it with actions to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce… — Rick Cook Copy Share Image
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image