It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But… — R. R. Reno Copy Share Image
With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,” Sanya said. “That he faced far greater and more terrible… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image