I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We all have had a crush at one time or another in our lives. Sometimes, a crush is something that lives only… — Simeon S. Willis Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image