Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will… — William Golding Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown… — Alfred Smee Copy Share Image
Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their… — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough.… — Bjork Copy Share Image