“Epicurus: “If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and… — Shandel Slaten Copy Share Image
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What unites us is our despair. Do other people wish to know that someone else walked this earth with a similar batch… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Seed-- The boy I loved/had the veins of the ancient./He was eighteen, but also/a hundred and eighty,/Biblical and stubborn/as stone lodged/in the… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“Pale as a candle flame in the dusk, tallow-pale, he stalked along, holding her hand, and Louie looked up and beyond him… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the eartha — 2 * and the earth was without form or shape, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“lamblichus's statements could not be clearer: The ancient religion constitutes nature worship and astrotheology, and the sun was considered the "Creator of… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“But I did not yet know, at that time, how tender the earth can be for those who have only her and… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Besides, I think that on some level, every one of us needs to believe we can hold our own against the monsters… — Angie Fox Copy Share Image
By the nature of fashion, you're only as good as your last collection, so I'm constantly striving to be better, so I… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“nto this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Some guys get by on natural athletic ability. And then when they reach a certain point, they got to put in the… — Charles Oakley Copy Share Image
“If this is metaphorically true, then it must again be our choice to eat of the Tree of Life, if we wish… — Katherine Parker Copy Share Image
“Transformation begins with tearing down the old, stretching beyond the existing, and undergoing deformity to give life to an astounding form.” — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image