... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship,… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are called upon to obey and follow our Lord the Christ, but it is not because of any fear of Him… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're… — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV… — Paul Daniels Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
“The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any… — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image