Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her.… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“The implications of this speech were not long in coming. On 22 September, emulating the brilliant Israeli gambit of the Six Day… — Efraim Karsh Copy Share Image
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“There are billions of conversations happening every second, and it’s too bad I can’t listen to more than about half of them… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Christians have always dissented through history... and inevitably, when persecution of free speech comes it always comes against the people who have… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“There, alone among the trees with the sound of the stream moving, Keirah and Kathel felt the heat of desire flicker between… — Madison Thorne Grey Copy Share Image
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“HAVING IT ALL.” Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. Bandied about in speeches, headlines,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he thought about approaching her, walking up to her like a normal human being and striking up a conversation. Hello. How… — Anastasia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ask yourself . . . What are my goals when I converse with people? What kinds of things do I usually discuss? Are there other… — Susan Scott Copy Share Image
In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the… — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
“Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation; to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment; love is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The idea of two actors in a relationship can be explosive and scary, but the good thing is that he is also… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Placing young people in dynamic situations, involving multiple interests and without a simple solution, is a catalyst for the development of critical… — Trevor Gardner Copy Share Image
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about,… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“Listening to stories and telling them helped our ancestors to live humanly—to be human. But somewhere along the way our ability to… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world,… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for… — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
