The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency.… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You can pave the road you travel with doubt and despair or hope and happiness. Its your choice. Either way, you will… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts… — Ted Kulongoski Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
May isang girl waiting for her boyfriend... On the first day, she sent a message to the guy saying, miss you na!… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take… — Vera Stanley Alder Copy Share Image
... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values… — David Korten Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
What's great is that a lot of us are playing so against type in this, and it's awesome. All of the writers… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, was out camping out with the homeless in Baltimore . We were both recently at the Standing… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Aw, no. You’re taking us to that vegetarian place, aren’t you? It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
