The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Each heart has some pain, only the way of expressing is different. Some hide it in their eyes while some hide it… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them.… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. "Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know.… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
I thought eyelashes were meant to keep shit out of your eye, but half the time if there's anything in my eye… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
When you arent satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind… — André Breton Copy Share Image
People who repeatedly fail at doing something have more in common with winners than with losers because winners also commonly experience defeat.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
Each and every human being is unique this is God's creation and decree .it is only what we learn and how we… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
