God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me. — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon. — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing… — Irv Robbins Copy Share Image
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image