The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of… — Mike White Copy Share Image
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any… — George Takei Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the… — Heinlein Copy Share Image
We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
I sacrifice to the God of Beauty — the impulse to beauty in nature. Here are flowers. Here is wine spilled on… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
