“What follows is the first in a collection of tales, primarily of one tixie family, who recorded their exploits more than two… — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“After more than a thousand years," he continued, "an enemy finally broke through. Not because of superior firepower. Not because the Manchus… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“With influence comes power, with power, abuse. Jakan was only the son of a Pharisee. He was only two years older than… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“It had been like this forever, thought Domenic Jejeune. For a thousand years and more, men and women had been greeted by… — Steve Burrows Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“For God said, “In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death.” The Lord, therefore, recapitulating… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong Copy Share Image
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a thousand years," Alessandro said, "this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Heart beats fast Colors and promises How to be brave How can I love when I'm afraid To fall But watching you… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave… — Kazantsakis Nikos Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Environmentalist Paul Hawken, in the 2009 commencement address to the University of Portland, said, “Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would… — Paul J. Pastor Copy Share Image
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
“For those of us who were brought up in the creed of respect for humanity, the simple encounters that can sometimes change… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
“You can die but your dream mustn't. Plant a seed of your dream into someone if you can't make your dream come… — Adam Aksara Copy Share Image
The richness and generosity of the human spirit I discovered in those journeys, meeting with olive farmers and people caught up in… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image