It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use,… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I tell my kids no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts. And I… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore.… — Denis Boyles Copy Share Image
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image