Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melan...
ALBERT PIKE Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. ...
ALBERT PIKE That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill u...
ALBERT PIKE Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man'...
ALBERT PIKE Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; ...
ALBERT PIKE He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles again...
ALBERT PIKE The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze...
ALBERT PIKE A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controllin...
ALBERT PIKE The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
ALBERT PIKE True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed...
ALBERT PIKE What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai...
ALBERT PIKE Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...
ALBERT PIKE War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
ALBERT PIKE A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
ALBERT PIKE One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
ALBERT PIKE Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man&...
ALBERT PIKE To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which ...
ALBERT PIKE He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles again...
ALBERT PIKE A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too f...
ALBERT PIKE Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...
ALBERT PIKE The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathem...
ALBERT PIKE But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in...
ALBERT PIKE Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an im...
ALBERT PIKE He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles again...
ALBERT PIKE We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
ALBERT PIKE Will is the dynamic soul-force.
ALBERT PIKE The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, ...
ALBERT PIKE That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill u...
ALBERT PIKE We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
ALBERT PIKE The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very differ...
ALBERT PIKE Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
ALBERT PIKE The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
ALBERT PIKE A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its materi...
ALBERT PIKE If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others ca...
JAMES ALBERT PIKE The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the corre...
ZEBULON PIKE They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
ZEBULON PIKE Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
ZEBULON PIKE Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and...
ZEBULON PIKE The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which t...
ZEBULON PIKE The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
ZEBULON PIKE The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The popula...
ZEBULON PIKE Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, an...
ZEBULON PIKE I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force...
ZEBULON PIKE I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
ZEBULON PIKE If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
ZEBULON PIKE The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and man...
ZEBULON PIKE A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor...
ZEBULON PIKE In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
ZEBULON PIKE On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
ZEBULON PIKE Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
ZEBULON PIKE Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
ZEBULON PIKE Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mi...
ZEBULON PIKE Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
ZEBULON PIKE You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
ZEBULON PIKE There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great imp...
ZEBULON PIKE With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively em...
ZEBULON PIKE Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
ZEBULON PIKE I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux...
ZEBULON PIKE May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
ZEBULON PIKE Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? The...
APRILYNNE PIKE The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so...
ROSAMUND PIKE I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
ROSAMUND PIKE I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.
APRILYNNE PIKE If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died...
ZEBULON PIKE No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her ang...
APRILYNNE PIKE For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE How do you... we... you know, faeries pollinate?"
"The male produces pollen on his hands...
APRILYNNE PIKE Tamani?" she asked, even though she knew this was the wrong time. "How is a plant supposed to beat a...
APRILYNNE PIKE But with me, you are never just a spring faerie.
APRILYNNE PIKE Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open.
APRILYNNE PIKE Tamani paused and mulled this over for a few seconds. "If I say no, are you going to follow me anywa...
APRILYNNE PIKE There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those ...
APRILYNNE PIKE It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic.
APRILYNNE PIKE It's your call," he said softly, "but whatever you decide, I'll help you." He placed a soft, warm ha...
APRILYNNE PIKE And do you really think someone's going to look at you and say, 'Hmm, I think that girl's a plant'?
APRILYNNE PIKE So there's magic? Real magic? It's not just all scientific like David says?"
Tamani rolled his ...
APRILYNNE PIKE In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the vio...
SIGNE PIKE Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are ...
ROB PIKE It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you...
ROSAMUND PIKE I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ...
ROSAMUND PIKE You could be David's friend too". She glanced at Tamani when he said nothing. He was frowning. "The ...
APRILYNNE PIKE Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be ...
ROSAMUND PIKE Spartans were known for never retreating. It was better to die on the battle field than to retreat.
RON PIKE I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
APRILYNNE PIKE When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.
ROB PIKE Without him and his staff, it is a safe bet that this thing would not have occurred. Rick Perry dese...
PIKE POWERS It'll go through the heaviest armour like a hot knife through butter,
JOHN PIKE At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniar...
ZEBULON PIKE Historically, the Marines were recruiting warriors, and the Army was recruiting people looking for a...
JOHN PIKE -What's so funny?"
"-Sorry," David said, reddening again. "You just taste so sweet."
"-Wha...
APRILYNNE PIKE They just weren't going to give Connecticut a big, wet kiss like that without some payback.
JOHN PIKE Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as ...
ROSAMUND PIKE Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little roo...
APRILYNNE PIKE It was a defining symbol of an era. For its supporters, it was 'peace through strength.' For its opp...
JOHN PIKE The paradox of war is that it has always been both glorious and terrible. What we had with air power...
JOHN PIKE There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.
ROSAMUND PIKE If you suspected somebody else was doing that trick to you, these things would come in very handy fo...
JOHN PIKE You do have to wonder, over time, what the congressional appetite is going to be for that line item.
JOHN PIKE A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h...
APRILYNNE PIKE Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think o...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a m...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble one...
APRILYNNE PIKE Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE If you look at the guys wearing this armor, they look like turtles.
JOHN PIKE Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE It's a great romantic story with very real people in it and I think it is open to so many interpreta...
ROSAMUND PIKE I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memo...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. The...
APRILYNNE PIKE What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.
ROSAMUND PIKE And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Preju...
ROSAMUND PIKE I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bun...
ROSAMUND PIKE Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only...
ROSAMUND PIKE It really doesn't matter what's the color of their uniform. It's not like they're going down to the ...
JOHN PIKE There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magni...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illus...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of star...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full o...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I don't want to die!"
"Then you should never been born.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the conven...
ROB PIKE Thank you, Yoda. Feel the force, Luke.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
CHRISTOPHER PIKE But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Our support professionals will be coming through the ranks of support delivery and some of them will...
GREG PIKE These are not handouts. It is not like they give you anything at Old Pueblo: They provide shelter an...
GREG PIKE I was a terrible person: a liar, a cheat, a thief and a drug addict.
GREG PIKE You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Is he really in love with you?" Chelsea asked after a long, silent moment.

"Yes," Laurel...
APRILYNNE PIKE ...I'm the last person to tell you that you need a guy to make you happy. But if you're not moving o...
APRILYNNE PIKE I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said.
"I know, ...
APRILYNNE PIKE I just want to kiss you." He slid his hand up her neck, cupping the side of her face. "Do you want t...
APRILYNNE PIKE You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you...
APRILYNNE PIKE ...Sometimes," he said, bringing a figertip to her bottom lip, "A kiss is simply a kiss.
APRILYNNE PIKE One way or another, I'll watch her from a distance, silently and wihtout her knowledge, if that's wh...
APRILYNNE PIKE He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy...
APRILYNNE PIKE When in doubt, head under the bed," Tamani said with a grin.
APRILYNNE PIKE So why are you here?"
He lifted his hands and made as if to lay them on her arms, but just befo...
APRILYNNE PIKE Thank you for the exquisite comfort of your kitchen floor.
APRILYNNE PIKE Someday , Tamani told himself. Someday it'll be me.
APRILYNNE PIKE Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard.
APRILYNNE PIKE I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you.
APRILYNNE PIKE Oh my gosh, is that an iPhone?!" Laurel asked, her voice unconsciously rising in pitch and volume. APRILYNNE PIKE Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research."

The words were out of L...
APRILYNNE PIKE But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love som...
APRILYNNE PIKE I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.
APRILYNNE PIKE Men," Chelsea muttered derisively...
APRILYNNE PIKE Laurel nodded slowly, then paused. "I love him, Mom."
"I know you do. But there are a lot of di...
APRILYNNE PIKE I wouldn't go that far mate," he said. "I still don't like you.
APRILYNNE PIKE All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was wor...
APRILYNNE PIKE You live your life and continue with all of your normal activities. I'll keep you safe," he said ste...
APRILYNNE PIKE Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love ...
SIGNE PIKE No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's n...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I believe the Greeks are most competitive during step show, ... Most groups spend more time preparin...
JENNIFER PIKE Their symptoms trigger a self-perpetuating cycle that leads to a downward spiral in their functionin...
JENNIFER PIKE Homecoming is a tradition that students look forward to every year. The events are fun, competitive ...
JENNIFER PIKE You are not sure what to make of her, whether she is responsible for all this or she's innocent.
ROSAMUND PIKE Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply...
APRILYNNE PIKE If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am will...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Tamani checkled. ‘If it makes you feel any better, it scares the daylights our of me on a regular ...
APRILYNNE PIKE This person interrogating you is Chelsea, by the way. Hi, Chelse.
APRILYNNE PIKE With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the o...
KENNETH L. PIKE If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not p...
KENNETH L. PIKE The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
KENNETH L. PIKE Feast of James the Apostle Upon a little reflection one can see that no concepts which are restri...
KENNETH L. PIKE But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation...
KENNETH L. PIKE Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- wheth...
KENNETH L. PIKE Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp...
KENNETH L. PIKE He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us...
KENNETH L. PIKE Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 "Help!" "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch." ...
KENNETH L. PIKE I did enter into this relationship thinking she and I could have a life together. I was dead wrong.
CHERYL PIKE BARLOW The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is pa...
KENNETH L. PIKE Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total cohere...
KENNETH L. PIKE That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; ...
KENNETH L. PIKE Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
KENNETH L. PIKE Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or ...
KENNETH L. PIKE When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
KENNETH L. PIKE The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe unt...
KENNETH L. PIKE This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing w...
KENNETH L. PIKE Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
KENNETH L. PIKE