Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and… — James Allen Copy Share Image
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those people who feels that they were born in the wrong era. I don't know if that's nostalgia.… — Memory Tapes Copy Share Image
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being… — Nabeshima Naoshige Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is it like gay men go into the priesthood because they figure, Well, this'll solve my problem. I can't be a homosexual… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man.… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord,… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
