To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those… — Jerome A. Cohen Copy Share Image
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're… — Jesse Plemons Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote - happen to be working class people who… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
