“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
My name was originally Da Baby Jesus, but I changed it like two years into my career because I didn't want to… — DaBaby Copy Share Image
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan… — Betsy Landin Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I really believe that, in 500 years, we will still remember the International Space Station, because it will have been the first… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that… — Dinah Lenney Copy Share Image
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
"It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“For young people, it is never too early to plan for a good retirement. A lot of people don’t spend enough time… — Fanny Lai Copy Share Image
I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for… — Maurice Motamed Copy Share Image
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
“Before your reach your destination, you'll find yourself going through the wilderness. There's some survival skills that you'll need master through the… — Yvonne Pierre Copy Share Image
I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes I can list all sorts of organizational forms and cultural issues that can get in the way of our accessing our… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image