You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is. — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is,… — Russell Targ Copy Share Image
In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in… — Colin Gunton Copy Share Image
I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
