The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator.… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates… — John Willys Copy Share Image
I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the… — Laurel Holloman Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no… — Fran Tarkenton Copy Share Image
Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Millennials may not put emphasis on traditional landmarks in child rearing but strive to bring up their kids to be well-adjusted, empathetic… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus… — Horace Copy Share Image
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you… — Eric Jacobson Copy Share Image