The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
President-elect Barack Obama is starting to get an idea of just how hard his new job is going to be. Today, he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Starting now, you're just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
[Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a… — Gustav Vigeland Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit… — David Berg Copy Share Image
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most… — John Reid Copy Share Image
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
You can say that I endorse Mitt Romney, but that's not just because I'm a white man. We all have things which… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image