The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
As human beings, it is our nature to dream about the future, but there is no future without a healthy nature. It's… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How many people on Earth serve people? And how many people on Earth serve the Earth? The difference in the numbers must… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona… — John Blacking 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
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
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
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I salute Rick Perry for the way he's trying to overcome this. Today he came out and said he's not one of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women.… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity.… — Farrah Fawcett Copy Share Image
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to… — Nicholas D'Agosto Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
