Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life… — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're… — Adam Rippon Copy Share Image
When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be… — Derek Carr Copy Share Image
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
