I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,… — Liu Zongyuan Copy Share Image
The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting… — Lynn Caine Copy Share Image
Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim… — Christopher R. Hill Copy Share Image
Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
