Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
