It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
You may change your destination, you may have a hundred stops along the way, there's a hundred different possibilities, but usually when… — Bryan Burk Copy Share Image
It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes.… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We need a dialogue with the Iranians, and it is going to take both carrots and sticks. We employed very tough economic… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. What you see is what you choose to see. On the surface life can… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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