Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. .… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ...… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf:… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees -… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image