As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Quote #390704

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

Author: Maya Angelou
Quote #264719

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard

Author: Unknown
Quote #405055

When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #496793

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communica

Author: Matt Cameron
Quote #322612

Continually trying to satisfy someone who attempts to control you is like bailing someone out of jai

Author: Kate McGahan
Quote #363746

It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dyi

Author: Patricia Highsmith
Quote #309897

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liber

Author: Joseph C. Morecraft III
Quote #484858

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties

Author: Jamie Dornan
Quote #291077

I am not a one in a million kind of girl. I am once in a lifetime kind of woman.

Author: Pravinee Hurbungs
Quote #447148

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because i

Author: Donna Leon
Quote #483465

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Author: Adriana Lima
Quote #372193

We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hi

Author: Donald L. Hicks
Quote #356417

When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star r

Author: Deborah Johnson
Quote #482083

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

Author: Angela Merkel
Quote #504489

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species

Author: Joseph Needham
Quote #268645

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This te

Author: Wilhelm Reich
Quote #88187

Traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely

Author: litymunshi
Quote #299887

It seems I can go from elated, embarrassed, angry, and back to embarrassed in four comments flat.

Author: Brandy Nacole
Quote #92909

Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in convers

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #343908

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Quote #347179

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

Author: Mary Papas
Quote #332571

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #222615

Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a large

Author: Erin Kouvas
Quote #229541

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

Author: Malebo Sephodi
Quote #403713

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it

Author: B. C. Forbes
Quote #380031

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Author: George Eliot
Quote #290227

The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity

Author: Luther Burbank
Quote #66051

Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of

Author: Kelli Wilson
Quote #180488

I am not moved by what I see.; I am moved by what I believe. What I do believe is greater, stronger

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #40655

Truth never dies.

Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Quote #156448

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

Author: Amit Kalantri
Quote #310946

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretc

Author: Dorothy Parker
Quote #370926

Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivabl

Author: Geoffrey Wood
Quote #3344

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the o

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Quote #93793

Break the rushy-soul of your soul by element of Trust

Author: Dariush Youkhaneh
Quote #341354

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in

Author: Joanna Penn
Quote #364007

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whor

Author: Lorrie Moore
Quote #329866

Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecur

Author: Matthew Paul Turner
Quote #225642

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

Author: Steve Maraboli
Quote #463442

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look

Author: Isabel Allende
Quote #123403

Her soul was soothed by his presence, Her mind was soothed by his beliefsHer heart was soothed by hi

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #286114

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of s

Author: Wallace Stevens
Quote #293292

I have a talent for hurting things," Jack perches the rifle on his cocked hip, and it's so insuffera

Author: Sara Wolf
Quote #224192

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

Author: James Rozoff
Quote #213041

I don’t regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportun

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #495751

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, jus

Author: Timothy Olyphant
Quote #155354

YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE IT TO BE FROM EVERY MOMENT ONWARDS, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF YOUR CONTROL.

Author: Jonny Oates
Quote #184382

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will d

Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Quote #383383

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

Author: Megan Hart
Quote #28735

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…

Author: Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Quote #115647

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr

Author: Chaim Potok
Quote #283820

To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not

Author: Anna Jae
Quote #15871

If you want to find God have a look around you. He's in everything you see, smell, taste, feel, touc

Author: Anthony T.Hincks
Quote #133402

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

Author: Tamara L. Chilver
Quote #32569

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to he

Author: Curtis Tyrone Jones
Quote #272983

What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She

Author: Sonja Yoerg
Quote #344128

Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the fr

Author: Yawatta Hosby
Quote #361461

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #390835

Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I r

Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Quote #369434

Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with

Author: Lisa A. Mininni
Quote #292641

NON SI PUÒ SOSTITUIRE QUALCOSA DI UNICO, NON SI PUÒ RIEMPIRE UN ABISSO CHE NON VUOLE ESSERE RIEMPITO

Author: Valentina D'Urbano
Quote #229668

Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

Author: Unknown
Quote #412778

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satis

Author: Kathleen Tierney Andrus
Quote #383953

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as

Author: Pat Conroy
Quote #261358

I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me

Author: Suzie Burke
Quote #454505

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

Author: Coco Lee
Quote #39873

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

Author: A.W. Tozer
Quote #43033

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book

Author: Stephen Potter
Quote #386273

You are what you love, not who loves you.

Author: Unknown
Quote #478265

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-rel

Author: Wayne Dyer
Quote #393791

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat

Author: Ben Brooks
Quote #343462

Whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions

Author: Ali ibn Abi Talib
Quote #306047

Even though Marcus really believed some miracle would happen, he didn't waste a second." He gave a s

Author: Moriah McStay
Quote #327504

Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

Author: Jillian Bullock
Quote #121643

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness;

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #352541

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have be

Author: Stephen Chbosky
Quote #76504

This is us at forty-three per cent animosity.

Author: Will Kostakis
Quote #83065

Why are you so weird?""Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch."

Author: Alexandra Bracken
Quote #314277

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For t

Author: Peter Straub
Quote #207379

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t

Author: Catrina Burgess
Quote #440132

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Author: Swami Sivananda
Quote #352221

You're right," Early said. "Those are two different things.""What are?", I asked, surprised that he

Author: Clare Vanderpool
Quote #119677

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so ti

Author: Ross David Burke
Quote #30694

It's not a romance, it's a love story.

Author: Sadie Jones
Quote #410034

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

Author: Joseph Roux
Quote #409589

Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

Author: William Blake
Quote #111459

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfe

Author: Thomas Hardy
Quote #226742

Time is priceless gift.

Author: Unknown
Quote #370639

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

Author: Paulo Freire
Quote #452435

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Author: Erich Fromm
Quote #352775

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

Author: Sylvain Reynard
Quote #373896

As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs

Author: Nien Cheng
Quote #20062

Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just a

Author: Amy Leigh Mercree
Quote #237138

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #60433

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is th

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #227787

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you

Author: Thomas J. Vilord
Quote #422089

When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities

Author: C. Wright Mills
Quote #48763

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman,

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #190090

Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, in

Author: Sunday Adelaja