Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms. He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as… — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping,… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
