A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image