Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in… — W. I. Thomas Copy Share Image
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is misunderstood. I wouldn't ever argue that everyone is the same, but that differences should not be hierarchical.… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following… — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which… — Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc Copy Share Image
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
