As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it, the Senate sessions had been quieting for a while. The boisterous beginnings she remembered as a tiny… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The mind is a focusing and decision-making mechanism. We can focus on our spirit and decide to honour the voice of Truth,… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable… — Rowan Pelling Copy Share Image
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for… — Hernando Cortes Copy Share Image
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image