A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic? — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Then, the specialists themselves, probably believe that in the course of EU expansion, for example, some elements concerning the readiness of some… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters,… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image