A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! — Jenny Lind Copy Share Image
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Copy Share Image
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. — Henry James Copy Share Image
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about… — Avan Jogia Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and… — Gerad Adams Copy Share Image
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
