That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
I'm saying that I lived too long. You want them to actually miss you [...] I truly believe there exists some combination… — Walter White Copy Share Image
A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Tennis players wear sleeveless tops and skirts with spandex shorts so that they can hit, reach, and lunge for the ball effectively.… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro.… — Pat LaFontaine Copy Share Image
Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image