If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the… — William H. Sylvis Copy Share Image
In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008… — John H. Makin Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image