A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I feel a very, very strong bind, and really I'm bound to this country, we either have a border or we don't.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
The countries outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty also are bound by that obligation [ Article Six of the treaty] according to, at least… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest… — Deron Williams Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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
The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image