We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential factor is that they are taken… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh,… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter,… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
It starts with a dream.Add faith,it becomes belief, add action to belief it becomes a part of life,add preservance to part of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I was raised within a belief system that taught me the world was fixed, predestined to evolve along a certain path. My… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Don't worry about Everybody's views of you. Opinions are like toilets.. everybody has one just some need a good flush!!!!! As To… — Cole Rico Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs.… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
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