At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
