In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I think what's fun of making a Transformers movie is that it gets to be all of the above. I think, thematically,… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising.… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image