What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife.… — Ferdie Pacheco Copy Share Image
The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all… — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack.… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes… — William Golding Copy Share Image
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because… — William Safire Copy Share Image
In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love,… — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image