I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
A strong woman perseveres regardless of the odds and circumstances. You don't know how strong you are until you've hit bottom and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake,… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
“One simple thing to do and destroy the spirit of self-sabotage is to admire the beauty hidden in ugly circumstances.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances. — Ed Diener Copy Share Image
If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
Life Is So Complicated A Game That The Devices Of Skill Are Liable To Be Defeated At Every Turn By Air-Blown Chances,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image