In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art… — John Walford Copy Share Image
We are involved in a historic restructuring of the world economy. Virtually every country that matters has been striving to pursue the… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
It's pretty interesting how it all started out. After The Voice, I got introduced to some of my publishing people. We were… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,… — Judith Hand Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Too often, business schools teach academic crisis management theory, if that, but given the diverse and unique nature of crises, all the… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
One of the best moments is right here (during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997). Right here. It’s right… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining… — Li Peng Copy Share Image
A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have… — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
You can't dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things, but having said that, WWE is at the… — Triple H Copy Share Image
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
