“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that,… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..."… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien… — Louisa Burton Copy Share Image
My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It’s right up there with… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
“It’s never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
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