But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he's stranded… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work.… — Ravi Teja Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives;… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
“Want to know a sure-fire way to cut your Obsessive Comparison Disorder in half? Cut your Facebook and TV time in half.… — Paul Angone Copy Share Image
I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
