It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?” I… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Copy Share Image
God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image