When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“We have the "spotless Lamb of God" bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much… — Don Wilton Copy Share Image
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them.… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before… — William Hartung Copy Share Image
I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
