And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
“All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
I guess it was this over-riding feeling I wanted people to get from the album - a kind of positivity. On the… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't… — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in… — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five… — Ben Webster Copy Share Image
In other countries, rich and poor, education remains substantially free, with educational standards that rank high in global comparisons. Even in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
“The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Although it's only just an hour from Panama by air, Jamaica is such an incredibly lush island that everywhere else looks quite… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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