Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art… — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Everybody is an expert in giving advice on how you cannot do something. So forget about everybody. And then, when you encounter… — Maria Elena Ibanez Copy Share Image
You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’” added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’” Niphon’s presence and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Rep. Lewis had every reason in the world to be bitter and to feel hate. But he didn't. Maybe because he had… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And there is London!--England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision… — Sha Zukang Copy Share Image
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A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not… — Hans Holzer Copy Share Image
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film… — David Small Copy Share Image
That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
People like to say that Plutarch's is a really "personal" voice, but in truth Plutarch tells us very little about his life.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all one common… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us,… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
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The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image