I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want… — Jermain Defoe Copy Share Image
Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care:… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres,… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not… — Seishiro Itagaki Copy Share Image
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together. — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image