All great art is born of the metropolis.

Author: Ezra Pound

Author: Ezra Pound

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What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation betwe

Author: John Mark Reynolds
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From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good

Author: Sophie Tucker
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Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is swe

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

Author: Davis Miller
Quote #389225

Fundraising is an extreme sport!

Author: Marc A. Pitman
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Author: Lillian Hellman
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When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if no

Author: Sarah Dessen
Quote #18856

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forc

Author: Kevin Ngo
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Author: Katharine Hepburn
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Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations with

Author: Karl Marx
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure o

Author: Serj Tankian
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Every day is a new day and every sunrise brings hope to the hopeless”.

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
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Music gives pleasure because your mind keeps predicting what comes next. Each correct prediction tri

Author: Loretta Graziano Breuning
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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. W

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski
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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

Author: William Saroyan
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You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to

Author: Taylor Mali
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At her gesture Michael cursed and caught her hand, falling suddenly atop her.She stared up at him wo

Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of

Author: Peter Lewis Allen
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Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge bet

Author: Paulo Coelho
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That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Author: Kenny G
Quote #205334

Get your life. Because while you are neglecting yourself for whatever cause, that is exactly what ev

Author: Holland Meissner
Quote #474719

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n

Author: William Howard Taft
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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this ide

Author: Whoopi Goldberg
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We are figments of the same imagination… We are one

Author: Gary Hopkins
Quote #423130

An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a differe

Author: R.A.Delmonico
Quote #93652

Songs edify the soul.

Author: Unknown
Quote #46562

The Buddha, Christ and Mohammed had to rely on God and karma and human priests for judgement; we don

Author: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Quote #387420

There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.

Author: J.K. Rowling
Quote #136430

Quiet the mind’s constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts.

Author: Steven Redhead
Quote #374016

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Quote #56791

My imaginary pal up there, Mr. NOT, tells me it's my dog-damn ism to kick your illusory he-man's ass

Author: Fakeer Ishavardas
Quote #239420

Nice dress,” Victoria said.“Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question

Author: Benjamin R. Smith
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Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives i

Author: Rudolf Steiner
Quote #156378

My men are my money.

Author: Amit Kalantri
Quote #7785

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he

Author: Robin McKinley
Quote #369395

Board and Staff relationships are critical in any business reboot—don’t overlook or undervalue them!

Author: Holly Duckworth
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A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare with

Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote #416675

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Author: Oswald Chambers
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The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter,

Author: Craig Dilworth
Quote #414460

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

Author: Publilius Syrus
Quote #40946

All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepare

Author: Ada Calhoun
Quote #451830

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laugh

Author: Isabella Bird
Quote #311616

Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #116767

... some wounds refuse the remedy of time.

Author: Robert McCammon
Quote #367346

The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #260112

Don't you dare touch yourself today. I want your orgasm and I plan on getting it later.

Author: T.K. Leigh
Quote #504309

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Author: Bill Gates
Quote #35037

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not on

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Quote #179711

It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -M

Author: G. Willow Wilson
Quote #441281

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that

Author: Sia
Quote #500123

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Author: Roberto Clemente
Quote #476318

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend

Author: Steven Burd
Quote #131654

Not all broken things need to be fixed.

Author: Iva Ursano
Quote #55011

If we pray to God, He will give us wisdom to solve any problem.

Author: Unknown
Quote #493452

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much

Author: Chris Cornell
Quote #149152

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit o

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #409012

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will recei

Author: Martin Luther
Quote #179113

Future is the son of Women.because women give birth to future....give respect to all women.

Author: Kuldeep kandasi
Quote #270767

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, im

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote #342168

A good orgasm was in the details.

Author: Sara Jane Stone
Quote #14050

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Author: David McCullough
Quote #32528

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon y

Author: Sally Brampton
Quote #271203

A man in love is an awful sight.

Author: Agatha Christie
Quote #395019

Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

Author: Hal Higdon
Quote #306830

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His armstightened around her. "But I can promise to lo

Author: Iris Johansen
Quote #401100

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be

Author: Arthur Rubinstein
Quote #120066

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Author: Jacqueline Carey
Quote #155298

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #185139

Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #268009

And that’s basically the end of this story. I know it sounds unbelievable and all. And I’m not sayin

Author: Dinah Katt
Quote #154385

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Quote #211066

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

Author: Rev. Corey M. Osborne
Quote #387478

Tell Albus - tell Albus Severus - I'm proud he carries my name.

Author: J.K. Rowling
Quote #439119

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id

Author: Andre Malraux
Quote #75918

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain

Author: Rachel Vincent
Quote #196825

And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to ru

Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote #366785

I'm allergic to stupidity.

Author: Chris Colfer
Quote #207407

He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits

Author: P.J. Parker
Quote #239304

Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, th

Author: Gregory B. Sadler
Quote #306539

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Author: Scarlett Thomas
Quote #419438

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Author: James Russell Lowell
Quote #297074

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Author: Eraldo Banovac
Quote #489798

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial p

Author: Meghan Markle
Quote #416728

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.

Author: Aesop
Quote #373196

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

Author: John Green
Quote #54587

To know is the male, to act is the female, for there to be production, to know need to meet with to

Author: ANIKOR Daniel
Quote #74937

You are my favourite part of life.

Author: Kamand Kojouri
Quote #37642

Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #191754

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough

Author: Antoine Lavoisier
Quote #137749

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
Quote #211364

Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floa

Author: Sherman Alexie
Quote #96975

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

Author: Benjamin Zander
Quote #80785

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always

Author: Orrin Woodward
Quote #289

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Quote #213743

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #124893

I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky i

Author: Sajil Chembil
Quote #491829

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does

Author: Alvin Toffler