Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes,… — Lucinda Franks Copy Share Image
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness;… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have… — John Prine Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no… — David Filo Copy Share Image
Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by… — Joseph Salerno Copy Share Image
This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image