...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Aiki is the way of the Kami and was born of the will of the Kami. Rise early in the morning to… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is… — David Copy Share Image
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory.… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image