The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that… — Margie Warrell Copy Share Image
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic… — Jlin Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I'm troubled by activist judges who are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is… — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
By our actions we influence, change, combine, separate, grow, and destroy the outside world. In turn we are also influenced, changed, combined,… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There's just a lot of really, really great male artists right now, and it's good, too. And there's so many different influences… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
