Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water,… — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
