Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Countries that work with Europe should feel safer than they would if they worked with non-democratic regimes. Why isn't Europe building infrastructure… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
My wife and I are just praying daily for our kids. We are trying to raise our kids to go all in… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was… — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image