We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel. — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“We try new things with open minds. Mistakes, they come and go. Attempting what we cannot do Is how we learn and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
