When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
I think the accurate description for the George W. Bush administration is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
