A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi Copy Share Image
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move,… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied… — Plato Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
