Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity -… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need.… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.” “Did he… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image