That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
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We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It's no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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Usually it is good to spread some light. The problem is that lakhs of people, like our workers, small-scale businesses, the tourism… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
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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
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
“I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated.… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
