perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley.… — Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What does impress both the unsaved and saved alike are those rare individuals who have learned to control their lifestyles and use… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at… — Charles R. Knight Copy Share Image
It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative… — John Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are… — Elton John Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image