Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image