“It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. It is also true that you can… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion,… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual… — Pat Derby Copy Share Image
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature;… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell.… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb.… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
The house I was born in in Somalia was right next to a big market. A lot of beggars or panhandlers would… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate… And I'd like… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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