There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief.… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no,"… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You should be proud of what you're doing, but not conceited. If you can't be proud of yourself, you're a failure. And… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said… — James Monroe Iglehart Copy Share Image
Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The apostle says, 'They… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
It goes Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day. Is that fair to anyone who's alone? These are all days you gotta be… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image