What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Peanut butter and lamb chops were not foods that had ever been a significant part of our life before pregnancy. In fact,… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
I just love the fact that all my pals are basically looked after. You know, we have these amazing deals, these guys… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have… — Bonnie L. Oscarson Copy Share Image
The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been… — James Balog Copy Share Image
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image