You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate when people say you can't wear skirts or do item numbers, or a girl can't dress in a certain way.… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
You really think your life is going to go a certain way sometimes, and then sometimes something amazing happens just out of… — Hannah Hart Copy Share Image
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name. — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
