Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In a world that’s gone hellishly mad we’ve always taken comfort in the fact that the faith of our fathers is the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
We can't stop the world, but there's so much more that we could do You can't stop this girl from falling more… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
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And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure.… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e.… — Vernon Richards Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
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I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image