Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions,… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from… — Bill Moyers 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
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. — Jean Baudrillard 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
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville 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
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell 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
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain 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
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see… — Mark Hopkins 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
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
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
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno 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
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz 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
I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the… — Anonymous 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
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson 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
The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure,… — Sargent Shriver 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
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see… — Keith B. McMullin Copy Share Image
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their… — Eisaku Sato 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
