Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood.… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security),… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide… — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
So, think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the sky for all and everything to see.For… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
