This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that.… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your… — John Jantsch Copy Share Image
A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. — Dominique Sutton Copy Share Image
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image