If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Yes, there are absolutely moments when you're running out of ideas, and you do genuinely feel sorry for the bowlers when you… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't really prepare things necessarily. I have some ideas that I want to make sure I get across to our guys.… — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't… — John Debney Copy Share Image
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
“There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
If you ask anybody at Microsoft, could they spend more money, all of them would say yes. They should say that! They… — Amy Hood Copy Share Image
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
