As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Author: Virgil

Author: Virgil

Quote #12023

Hell is truth seen too late.

Author: Thomas Hobbes
Quote #275295

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civ

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #477291

With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

Author: Nargis Fakhri
Quote #293511

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Quote #222238

In the evening, the tarantella dancers will come to the hotel; perhaps they'll dance and sing in the

Author: Clara E. Laughlin
Quote #229819

You do not set a high enough value on yourself if you think a man who loves you should not weave you

Author: David Eso
Quote #239558

The Writers curseWe have to writeWe have no choiceWe have stories to TELL

Author: Paul Barrell
Quote #81562

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Quote #260974

Chewing on his lip, he tried to make sense of this. There was something terribly wrong with the pict

Author: Billy Wood-Smith
Quote #477579

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is

Author: Charles Horton Cooley
Quote #17961

Youth is wasted on the young. If it was me, you can be sure I wouldn't be lazing around thinking I h

Author: Avery Flynn
Quote #117527

... There may not be even two men living in the world whom I would have agreed to marry, certainly n

Author: Marie Brennan
Quote #60627

No problem. Just drop it back off before you go," he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on

Author: Hannah Harrington
Quote #502035

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum

Author: Mikhail Bakunin
Quote #181827

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Author: Confucius
Quote #179349

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Quote #281655

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Author: Rose Tremain
Quote #195141

We have…Settled into a region called “don’t ask don’t tell” and it is hard, i imagine for people who

Author: Daisy Hernandez
Quote #417341

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.

Author: Nichiren Daishonen
Quote #199824

I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful t

Author: Lewis Carroll
Quote #66226

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other ha

Author: Melody Carlson
Quote #297530

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Quote #52603

I had a dream about you last night.. You pretended not to be a three hole punch.

Author: Amy Sommers
Quote #369539

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "May

Author: Margaret McMullan
Quote #123304

Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart.

Author: Vikrmn
Quote #402941

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land b

Author: Louis Riel
Quote #423425

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusem

Author: Aristotle
Quote #495780

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his moth

Author: Jennifer Saunders
Quote #5645

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Quote #11473

You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and t

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
Quote #240540

Unforgiveness is a shadow of the past; it is behind you, but you always know it is there. Sorrow and

Author: Deborah Brodie
Quote #287886

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't s

Author: Elizabeth Wein
Quote #283467

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote #137108

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

Author: Munia Khan
Quote #484925

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a

Author: Dave Grohl
Quote #198085

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitt

Author: Iris Murdoch
Quote #282875

If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all

Author: Yogi Bhajan
Quote #162845

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget

Author: Catherine Lacey
Quote #270954

UFO.... MIB???UFO = MIB??!?What now... please keep the silence!

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #493478

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate,

Author: Alec Baldwin
Quote #341788

The five qualities of a good goal; It has to ambitious, achievable, accurate and specified, measurab

Author: Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
Quote #487659

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthw

Author: Audrey Hepburn
Quote #228997

Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the

Author: J.R. Rim
Quote #41258

One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addres

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Quote #311334

In those days, he said the following: I can only give you a little; but that little, I give to you w

Author: Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Quote #498489

Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want r

Author: Jon Ossoff
Quote #212913

To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #485990

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by soun

Author: Henry Moore
Quote #224688

Well, I’m just going to say it.I’m listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my

Author: Kent Haruf
Quote #424987

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses

Author: Eric Gamalinda
Quote #85230

There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place t

Author: Sinclair Lewis
Quote #80647

We do not always need to "understand" or interpret dreams to receive their gifts to heart and soul.

Author: Jill Mellick
Quote #106833

As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #10718

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like w

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Quote #323505

If you find an action hard, do not try it but master.

Author: Mahin Choudhary
Quote #229365

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly i

Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Quote #371387

Trying to drown me woman?"'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?''God

Author: Maya Banks
Quote #450717

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be st

Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Quote #45236

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on th

Author: Émile Zola
Quote #200634

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a

Author: Laurence J. Peter
Quote #175870

Creativity helps us fight off the monotony of everyday life!

Author: Simón Silva
Quote #389976

You could be a really great and fabulous person, but if your method of communication with a woman do

Author: Sahara Sanders
Quote #262096

To these children, the door William has just come through is a portal. Being shoved through it means

Author: M.R. Gott
Quote #468352

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

Author: Greg Maddux
Quote #226229

God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.

Author: Amy Layne Litzelman
Quote #329680

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

Author: Sons and Daughters
Quote #502690

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention bu

Author: Jon Corzine
Quote #61606

I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of bra

Author: M.T Anderson
Quote #478061

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it

Author: Walter Payton
Quote #40886

Faith is the fountain of life.

Author: Unknown
Quote #391914

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron-

Author: SL Hulen
Quote #55059

Learning starts with single word "WHY".

Author: saadshah
Quote #120723

And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control un

Author: Jean Gill
Quote #179495

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen

Author: Haruki Murakami
Quote #489564

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's al

Author: Willa Fitzgerald
Quote #72089

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of ch

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #370572

We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tenden

Author: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Quote #361111

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his fi

Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote #31326

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

Author: Jamie Ford
Quote #118621

THE WISER I GET....THE LESS I SPEAK, THE MORE I THINK AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"~QWANA

Author: Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
Quote #445279

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr

Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Quote #413616

My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation thin

Author: Noel Coward
Quote #56856

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Author: Khaled Hosseini
Quote #156194

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.

Author: Colette Parrino
Quote #150883

Is this the reality you wanted?

Author: Jonghyun
Quote #342694

War pacifies itself.

Author: Christopher Dutton
Quote #82569

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

Author: Jodie Picoult
Quote #85608

Political revolutions never liberate anyone

Author: Unknown
Quote #326672

Had I got a dating profile, it would be like this:Looks- 6/10: I knowHumor-9/10- you’ll knowI don’t

Author: Bhavik Sarkhedi
Quote #436507

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world h

Author: Tariq Ali
Quote #169291

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has

Author: John Dewey
Quote #7717

Who are you?" he asked.I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me a

Author: Eoin Colfer
Quote #341516

I read a book, am vortexed in with no escape; my face contorts, eyelids frost, breath comes short, b

Author: Chila Woychik
Quote #288774

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look

Author: Nick Hornby
Quote #228855

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. There

Author: Winston S. Churchill
Quote #419243

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Quote #186954

Amazing life, a joyful journey.

Author: Unknown
Quote #70400

Fear is very powerful, almost as powerful as love.

Author: Katie Hamstead
Quote #191446

When it comes to personal relationships, there is no greater way to express your commitment or to di

Author: Leon Hayduchok