Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“Diego thought about the night before, about the first breaths of morning chasing them from that old abandoned building, his arms twisted… — Laekan Zea Kemp Copy Share Image
Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins?… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
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