We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist… — Nayely Saldana Copy Share Image
“In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Life on earth can never be fully understood. Life and all it holds is too big for humans to understand. There is… — Jan Krause Greene Copy Share Image
“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) or raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) does not occur; that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time… — John Vinocur Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One day, almost two years after Keith died, I was on my way down our long driveway toward the mailbox when, in… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives… — Kosho Uchiyama Copy Share Image
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“When one has been as near to the reality of Life (which after all is Death) as I have been dearest, one… — Rafia Zakaria Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image