If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that.… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
“Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for? — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn't have put those two… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image