The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
unlike other countries, we're not skeptical at all when it comes to EU expansion. In fact, we are in favor of admitting… — Lech Kaczynski 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
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a… — Mark Colvin 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
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
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
Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks football is easy, you're on the pitch for two or three hours and you go home, but it's just not… — Aaron Ramsdale Copy Share Image
Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism -… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“Recently I am so much in to numbers, equations & scientific facts! I learned how to link logic to reason, and to… — Raouf Ayoub Copy Share Image
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
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