But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be… — Etienne Decroux Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite… — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns:… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“The origins of the name Warspite are not clear but the most popular theory is that it was a compound creation –… — Iain Ballantyne Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in… — Dolores LaChapelle Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage?… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image