Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I… — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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