The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a… — Susan Ward Copy Share Image
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate.… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place,… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action")… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
She ran her gaze over his chest with frank appreciation. Then he shivered, realizing he hadn't really considered the weather. It was… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look,… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. "… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
