At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Author: Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass

Quote #182083

Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its ow

Author: Meia Geddes
Quote #330998

Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create intere

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #348712

If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?

Author: Rick Yancey
Quote #89175

I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct.

Author: Kathe Koja
Quote #487464

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to wh

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Quote #421649

My dear my better half.

Author: Philip Sidney
Quote #106508

Knowledge is all about knowing it and Intelligence is all about using it

Author: Prabakaran Thirumalai
Quote #424621

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now th

Author: Dr. Seuss
Quote #109656

A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabric

Author: Louise Penny
Quote #83842

At the bottom of the hill they came out of the trees to a busy street and Antwan said, "We cross her

Author: Elmore Leonard
Quote #471177

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtuall

Author: Andrew Weil
Quote #410467

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

Author: Unknown
Quote #394980

Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out w

Author: Gina Greenlee
Quote #364653

He’d walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his

Author: A.G. Howard
Quote #330680

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Author: Huey P. Newton
Quote #211339

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great n

Author: Thomas Goodwin
Quote #339453

He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer."Try askin

Author: Juanita Ray
Quote #257629

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #415930

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

Author: Thomas Fuller
Quote #364644

Sure, swing your oscillating dick over there, and see how long you last before she runs screaming fo

Author: J.A. Belfield
Quote #439766

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one

Author: Antony Gormley
Quote #409804

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

Author: Grenville Kleiser
Quote #343868

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got somethi

Author: Ryan North
Quote #71727

Do not pay attention to difficulties and life’s troubles, you only need to believe

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #7636

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.!' Neville-'James rolled

Author: J.K. Rowling
Quote #360469

My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.

Author: Amber Hurdle
Quote #94989

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Author: Theodore M. Hesburgh
Quote #83881

Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally

Author: Howard Tayler
Quote #473537

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacter

Author: James D. Watson
Quote #6033

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken g

Author: Vance Havner
Quote #398534

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewh

Author: Sara Sheridan
Quote #112071

I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost havi

Author: Catherine Lacey
Quote #183655

They were wrong about the sun.It does not go down into the underworld at night.The sun leaves merely

Author: Margaret Atwood
Quote #477773

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weas

Author: Richard Corliss
Quote #418478

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made ve

Author: Audre Lorde
Quote #387153

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur w

Author: Kenneth Eade
Quote #11677

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Quote #490000

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Author: Arnold Bennett
Quote #82261

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
Quote #155012

Beyond the mask she is witness to his glorious soul. Exposed to the elements, she warms her skin in

Author: Truth Devour
Quote #438358

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was al

Author: George McGovern
Quote #43968

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first tw

Author: Scott Hayden
Quote #29207

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

Author: Leigh Bardugo
Quote #226036

We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believ

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #4886

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

Author: Leo Buscaglia
Quote #283303

With all my heart, I seek to reach the Holy Land.

Author: Unknown
Quote #148576

I stared back at her, my eyes leveled with hers in inscrutable certainty. For a moment, our eyes rem

Author: Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Quote #495798

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

Author: Joe Carnahan
Quote #281498

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were,

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #52868

My brother, Langston, said, “Lily, you don’t understand because you’ve never been in love. If you ha

Author: Rachel Cohn
Quote #64598

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a

Author: N. Scott Momaday
Quote #198226

So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance wher

Author: Adrian Hadzic
Quote #287427

Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?

Author: Ulysses Brave
Quote #487636

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by frien

Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Quote #306332

Shhh, it's okay Cait, Daddy will be back. I am going to take care of you, just like Uncle Drake take

Author: Brei Betzold
Quote #17875

If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.

Author: Reuben Berger
Quote #213921

...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is alw

Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Quote #135285

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Author: Pablo Escobar
Quote #163298

Or you just might say that destiny finally caught up with me.

Author: As Time Goes By
Quote #305814

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than

Author: Lorii Myers
Quote #348230

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of

Author: Mitch Albom
Quote #124288

And so life went on, as it always will.It had taken an awful lot to get there, for no victory comes

Author: Ross Turner
Quote #11784

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkw

Author: Melina Marchetta
Quote #305274

Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Confer

Author: Chris Salamone
Quote #245691

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't ha

Author: Stephen King
Quote #293325

Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
Quote #210742

Judas said, "Master, as you have listened to all of them, now also listen to me. For I have seen a g

Author: Rodolphe Kasser
Quote #31379

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist

Author: Victor Hugo
Quote #278514

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of ev

Author: George Ohsawa
Quote #28796

Não conseguia pensar em nada que desejasse especialmente na vida, excepto aquelas faíscas de cor púr

Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Quote #6668

Dreams are the language of God.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Quote #26762

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will

Author: Mensah Oteh
Quote #317052

Do you remember what I forgot?

Author: Erica Goros
Quote #43206

But 'why then publish?' There are no rewardsOf fame or profit when the world grows weary.I ask in tu

Author: George Gordon Byron
Quote #304469

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life

Author: Auliq-Ice
Quote #165179

The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society,

Author: Sven Lindqvist
Quote #92900

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philos

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #498557

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewer

Author: Chris Hayes
Quote #337536

A strange thing has happened as I've aged

Author: Unknown
Quote #15702

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natura

Author: Wilhelm Reich
Quote #464518

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Author: George S. Patton
Quote #376393

Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

Author: Chris Bradford
Quote #400773

The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multip

Author: George Steiner
Quote #241774

Helping OthersWhen we live our lives in happy, compassionate and constructive ways we set an example

Author: Raphael Zernoff
Quote #198498

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't c

Author: Josh Stern
Quote #336552

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way

Author: Jodi Picoult
Quote #492446

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Author: Will Rogers
Quote #428161

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Author: Jay Kay
Quote #237215

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who

Author: B. Dave Walters
Quote #371593

They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind b

Author: Thomas Mann
Quote #360516

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orvi

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #188069

Many of the world’s greatest geniuses all had in common that they were pulled from the school enviro

Author: Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Quote #361630

I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co

Author: Bessel A. van der Kolk
Quote #230657

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into yo

Author: Eiry Nieves
Quote #343969

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Author: Leslie Jamison
Quote #96538

Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumsta

Author: Archibald Marwizi
Quote #365668

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the la

Author: Yusuf Islam
Quote #115436

If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or

Author: Emily Dickinson