We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx. — John Ringo Copy Share Image
If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive.… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
