[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others… — Confucius Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to… — Don King Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image