Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship?… — Pamala Oslie Copy Share Image
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate at a young age to learn what goal setting is and how to take time and spend it… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history. The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another. And… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers,… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For me, the biggest champions out there are not just on the field, but also off the field. Some of the biggest… — Nick Youngquest Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will… — Glenn Hoddle Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I'm old enough now that I've been around and I've seen a lot more things than I had seen when I started… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with images of maps, flags, and different cultures around the world. I've always liked geography and geopolitics and it's… — Laura Restrepo Copy Share Image
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
At my last job in the tech world, we'd throttle our wi-fi to experience what download speeds might be like for someone… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
