Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we… — Anne Katherine Copy Share Image
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal that's great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image