Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I try to turn most things into an exercise. Sometimes, I can't get a workout in, so I will do things like… — Regina King Copy Share Image
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT (PERCY THREE) He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I'm… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone… — Mel Odom Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear… — Ted Trueblood Copy Share Image