This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It was immensely helpful to me at the time to remind myself that I could not solve THIS BIG PROBLEM (whatever I… — Kathryn Vercillo Copy Share Image
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You can't let the little nuances of life freak you out. Keep your composure in order to respond accordingly to whatever current… — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives.… — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with leaders, the stakes are very high indeed. Churchill, in WWII, for example, could not afford to utter publicly his concerns… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as… — James Stuart Stewart Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image