For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
He's just very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease. I got to the three-eighths pole, and I even… — Ramon A. Dominguez Copy Share Image
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube… — Frank M. Robinson Copy Share Image
The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is… — Linda Lantieri Copy Share Image
I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in… — Liam Payne Copy Share Image
So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There… — Bud Selig Copy Share Image
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Ever notice how the abbreviation for Testament is Test? I noticed this when I woke up and saw the tabs on my… — Amanda Penland Copy Share Image
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual… — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take… — Marshall Ulrich Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image