It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b)… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
What you take for granted, someone else is praying for. Happiness never comes to those who dont appreciate what they already have.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple… — Florence Littauer Copy Share Image
Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give… — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image