The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm such a successful pugilist is that no one knows my limitations better than me. I am quite good,… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
What happened after World War I was disgraceful. Most veterans, like my great-uncle, were squashed back into place. Congress couldn't pass an… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education. No one can stop us. We will speak up for… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Darkness cannot cast out darkness. You need a light for that. Fear cannot cast out fear. You're gonna need hope for that… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of… — Jules Marshall Copy Share Image
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person… — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus… — John Legend Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
I've seen a total eclipse from every continent - including Antarctica. And it's been a wonderful way to see the world. The… — Fred Espenak Copy Share Image
A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things… — D'Angelo Russell Copy Share Image
At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at,… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
I love women. I'm crazy about them. I have a beautiful wife, who's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, and… — Ned Luke Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor… — Harry Bruno Copy Share Image
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image