We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous… Trivial things take up all your time and dull your… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed… — George Will Copy Share Image
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this:… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you… — David Attenborough 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
Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
“Some women think being arrogant, selfish, bitter and looking down on others are qualities of being an Independent, strong, powerful and successful… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
“They jostled one another, competed for space below as they did above, in a minuet of ruin and triumph. In the subway,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then… — John Silber Copy Share Image
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
“Wednesday Wind and spindles of clouds crowding the peaks from the south. A lone chicken pecks away on the lawn… To be… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image