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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
Reality
Our
Possibility
Performing
Itself
Anticipation
Intense
Often
Being
Which
Capable
Things
Desires
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience
Men
Only
Lights
Like
Stern
Most
Track
Passed
Ship
Which
Illuminate
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.
Sebastian Bach
Beautiful
Time
Food
Architecture
Shopping
Speak
Most Beautiful
Gorgeous
Old
Seen
France
Say
City
Part
Beautiful City
Town
Like
Most
French
Quebec
North
North America
America
Any
Just
Being
Which
Really
European
Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work.
Sharan Burrow
Work
Time
Bullying
Rights
Dignity
People
Law
Greed
Live
Corporate
Rule
Rule Of Law
Secure
Minimum
Fair
Global
Safe
Fair Trade
Trade
Wages
Cannot
Which
Tolerated
Guarantee
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Think
Those
Oasis
Insomnia
Take
Almost
Refuge
Stages
Which
Who
Suffer
Early
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
Impossible
Civilization
Instinct
Built
Renunciation
Overlook
Which
Extent
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
God
Communication
Communicate
Separation
Every
Other
Knocking
Also
Prisoners
Link
Wall
Same
Cells
Which
Them
Us
Means
Separates
Each
Whose
Thing
Two
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Man
Animal
Humanity
Sex
Giving
Has-Been
Above
Superiority
Risking
Been
Accorded
Which
Forth
Why
Brings
Raised
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull
Made
Country
Assured
Seven
Threaten
Only
Take
Also
Buffalo
Were
Years
Years Ago
Left
Forever
Which
Us
Should
Now
Treaty
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Sojourner Truth
Space
Moon
Down
Stars
Other
Those
Though
See
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Look
Up
Sisters
Same
Which
Them
Far
Far Away
Us
Your
Each
Away
Ever
Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson
Stupidity
Never
Attribute
Malice
Which
Explained
Reasonably
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
Stephen Hawking
Service
Health
Great
Me
Debate
Care
Citizen
National
Great Britain
Summer
Statement
States
Press
Claimed
Entered
Response
Would
Make
Health Care
Felt
Were
Off
Error
Which
Explain
United
United States
Compelled
Britain
British
The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.
Steven Weinberg
Socialism
Gave
Nineteenth
Ghastly
Everywhere
Failed
Idea
Most
Influential
Banner
Which
China
Centuries
Stalin
Us
Mao
Twentieth
Utopian
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon
Truth
Truth Is
Distance
Crooked
Points
Between
Always
Line
Lines
Which
Straight
Shortest
Straight Line
Shortest Distance
Many
Why
Two
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
Spiritual
Progress
He
Real
Tranquility
Achieves
Which
Measured
Inner
Extent
The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.
T. B. Joshua
Work
Faith
Great
Healing
Grace
Righteousness
Deliverance
Him
Am
His
According
Done
Which
Mighty
Product
Works
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Taylor Mali
Future
Day
You
Will
Looking
Back
Our
Tell
See
Uncertain
Only
Never
Obsessed
Steps
Trace
How
Up
Ended
Graduation
Where
Anything
Which
Turn
Speaker
Ever
Need
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
Art
Dance
Made
Ourselves
Only
Stuff
Which
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
Temple Grandin
Will
Analysis
Statistical
Determine
Records
Computerized
Most
Enable
Effective
Which
Used
Medical
Medical Records
Treatments
I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
Theo Jansen
Time
You
Clouds
Little Things
World
Sometimes
Long
Somewhere
Long Time
Sit
Living
Imagination
Dreaming
Computer
Head
Also
Stimulate
Go
Very
Just
Which
Little
Your
Fascinated
Things
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Thomas Becket
Truth
Faith
Remember
Christ
Gave
Those
Weathered
Give
Wins
Crown
No-One
New
Without
Real
Came
Saints
Were
Testimony
Effort
Storms
Which
Radiance
Ever
Sufferings
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
Thomas Becket
Man
Joy
Wait
Everything
Tests
End
Expectations
Which
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
Will
Men
Down
Meeting
Never
Town
Another
Greatest
Quarrel
Existed
Confederacy
Nations
Which
Who
Thing
Association
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
Man
Once
Once More
Those
Solitary
Mental
More
Sees
He
Feels
Unused
Than
Articulate
Intense
Gregarious
Experiences
Which
Speaking
Less
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
Thomas Sowell
Education
History
Vision
School
Our
Those
System
Would
Prevails
Attention
Study
Likely
Undermine
Parts
Left
Get
Which
Much
Much Attention
Elementary
Elementary School
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen
Good
Strength
Community
Conspicuous
Rests
Retaining
Consumption
Highly
Name
Goods
Industrial
Ultimately
Any
Leisure
Which
Gaining
Repute
Means
Organized
Showing
Basis
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