Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul,… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen.… — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you… — Bobby Murcer Copy Share Image
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents.… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard.… — Jim Thome Copy Share Image
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight,… — Bas Rutten Copy Share Image
I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation.… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image