Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When Complex hired me, originally I wasn't at First We Feast, I was just like a hired hand for Complex. They'd send… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the… — Charles Sturridge Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that.… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract… — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in… — Julio Olalla Copy Share Image
I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image