Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute,… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state.… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns.… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, or… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
