“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready...the way is about to show up. — Jerry Savelle Copy Share Image
On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause… — William James Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image