About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift.… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being… — John McCain Copy Share Image
So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until… — John Green Copy Share Image
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water;… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image