It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“...if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind,… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Want to know who I am? Your responses indicate that you have a normal desire to share yourself with others. However, this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“As a hungry man makes haste and takes large morsels on account of his great hunger so your servant feels a great… — Raymond Lulle Copy Share Image
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
“All through high school and college, his judo coach and older teammates would often say to him, "You have the talent and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Khush hotey hain par vasal mein yun mar nahin jaatey, Aaee shab-e hijra ki tamanna mere aagey. [Vasal: union, shab-e hijra :… — Hasan Suhail Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“When you are twenty-five and are a natural heavyweight, missing a meal makes you very hungry. But it also sharpens all of… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment.… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image