Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art. — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.” — Prerak Trivedi Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as… — Roman Dmowski Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian… — Duncan Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people… — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image