The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“That picture changed everything. I was not the same after I saw it and I couldn’t go back to the man I’d… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
“This makes me wonder, of course, about all of Scripture... how many other stories have I twisted to tell my own story?… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Besides," Gwen added, fluffing the dress folds, "this thing took forever, so you're wearing it." "Wait you made this?" Isobel asked, distracted.… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make… — Stephen Foster Copy Share Image
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.… — Barbara Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
