Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit… — Friedrich Accum Copy Share Image
If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt,… — Al-Nawawi Copy Share Image
In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image