The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially… — Dmitry Peskov Copy Share Image
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Americans shouldn't start a military attack, and they shouldn't bombard Iran, and they shouldn't interfere with the internal affairs of the country.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
One of the things women are very good at, that's networking. Women are not afraid to say, "I need." They're not afraid.… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“I don't know, Joel,” Letty said with a tiny considering frown. “I was just starting to get used to the idea of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“He pats you on the shoulder. “We’re lucky,” he said. “We got to have this time, and we didn’t ruin anyone’s life… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
True love is when your there all the time call her just to say hi listen to every word she says tell… — Younngking_0304 Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport,… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the… — William Blum Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image