In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till… — John Donne Copy Share Image
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser… — John Denham Copy Share Image
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. — Susannah York Copy Share Image
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul. — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
