How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion.… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will… — Vayalar Ravi Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats,… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
