Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the… — Jerry Sabloff Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones.… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The one thing I know for a fact - some days are bad, some days are okay, and I'll go with it.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson,… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image