The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
We should be inspired by our past and be confident about our future. We should not harvest negative feelings from our own… — Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it,… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
In a typical martial arts film, you have a hero shot: a close-up tight angle of the hero looking past the camera,… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are… — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
Well, then, if I admit I know who you are and really couldn’t care less will that assuage your damaged manhood enough… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood)… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Congress has faced many difficult times in the past, much tougher than today. But we have never lost heart; we have… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Where is my soul?" Mari asked again. "In my past. In what I wanted my life to be. I left my soul… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
