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Robert Hayden: Sundays too my...

Robert Hayden: Sundays too my...

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that...

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Maria Montessori: The first idea...

Maria Montessori: The first idea...

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between...

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: Now they have...

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: Now they have...

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is the...

Thomas Carlyle: It is the...

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this...

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Thomas Carlyle: Silence is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Silence is the...

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Source:...

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Hippocrates: The chief virtue...

Hippocrates: The chief virtue...

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar...

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Benjamin Rush: A pioneer is...

Benjamin Rush: A pioneer is...

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated...

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Austin O'Malley: Sermons are like...

Austin O'Malley: Sermons are like...

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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Karl A Menninger: Neurotic means he...

Karl A Menninger: Neurotic means he...

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society...

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Richard Bach: You are led...

Richard Bach: You are led...

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real...

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Margaret Drabble: When nothing is...

Margaret Drabble: When nothing is...

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...

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Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Experience suggests it doesn?t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive....

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Joseph Heller: [Catch22] specified that...

Joseph Heller: [Catch22] specified that...

[Catch22] specified that a concern for one's safety . . . was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could...

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