It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. — Francois Gautier Copy Share Image
(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural,… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have… — Darryl Worley Copy Share Image
I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
