Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the poor, the hungry, the disenfranchised, the wretched of the Earth... there will never be peace… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man. — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
