Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“Immortal existence.. Sometimes Living is not such an easy task.. Being here or there.. The spirit is the same.. Only changes the… — Dave Zebian Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination’s struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in… — Allie X Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
