One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him.… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
