Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners.… — Illeana Douglas Copy Share Image
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In fact, the left can't survive with independently self-sufficient, self-reliant people. They aren't needed if that ever happens, or within groups of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you're going to run around, Ms. Pelosi, and you're going to say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will… — Horace Copy Share Image
You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
People in the media often tend to assume it's like Trump and [Ted] Cruz fighting over the same voters but when you… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image