It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that,… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women — full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work — are doing the… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think that when Magic decided that he didn't want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that… — Jeanie Buss Copy Share Image
I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time.… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love,… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
