Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“I loved the fact there was a God who had made me, who had created everything around me. Jesus made sense to… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If "man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love your work, because… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Though we cannot understand "the meaning of all things," we do "know that God loveth his children" because He has said, "Behold,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or… — Reggie White Copy Share Image
In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
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