I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“You must really know how powerful you are—so power-filled it’s absolutely mind-boggling. Just like X-men, we just need to understand our powers,… — Saba Tekle Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really… — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed… — Jeremiah Jenks Copy Share Image
They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What I want to say about the Kanye thing is that whoever wants me to be in their life - whether it's… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery." "All I do is not close my… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Your goals are the blueprint for your future self. Writing them down makes them visible, and reviewing them regularly keeps them alive… — Linsey Mills Copy Share Image
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image