When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked… — Brian Baird Copy Share Image
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God. — David Bosch Copy Share Image
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood. — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of… — Denzel Whitaker Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
