How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with… — George Veditz Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
