Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory,… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the… — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the… — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Back in the hood after a tremendous Aussie tour! Thanks to all who rocked with us, I promise it won't be another… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image