There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
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Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
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I was confident and in good shape when I first came to L.A. but nobody would cast me in any well written… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
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A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
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Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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