To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask -… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli's being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
At the end of the process we called a market research company to find out whom the film was for or what… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions.… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such… — Akram Khan Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image