519 quotes found
“Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.”
“Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.”
“Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.”
“Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.”
“Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.”
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.”
“Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”
“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”
“All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“When satan sees a baby, however, he doesnt see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a s...”
“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.All alo...”
“We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.”
“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”
“Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.”
“When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.”
“Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”
“Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.”
“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
“Stop telling me I’m oppressed.....I’m not a victim. I don’t know why feminists are so hellbent on characterizing me as one.....Feminists don’t speak for me. They’re not my voice. They’re not my rep...”
