Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21. — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
I will be waiting here… For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake! — Rumi Copy Share Image
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would… — Barry McGuigan Copy Share Image
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“My hands twitch and wiggle. Jo sees them, shakes her head and mouths, “Sit on your hands.” She can’t be serious. As… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image