Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.
Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds
To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.
Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.
...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
The girl leaned forward and kissed Thomas on the cheek. “You’re sweet. I really hope we don’t end up killing you, at least.
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.
The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.
How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)