Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. — Holly Valance Copy Share Image
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with… — Marjorie Pizer Copy Share Image
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
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