(914 quotes found)
“The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught”
William Shakespeare
“Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”
David Hume
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”
Ben Okri
“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”
Washington Irving
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
Charles Baudelaire
