Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares,… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Just before folding up the piece of paper 216 SMALL CIRCLES she’d used to write her message, she said, “Even when it… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The Circle had been less than thrilled by its choice, but we'd finally come to terms. As in, they were no longer… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of… — Shenae Grimes Copy Share Image
And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image