What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
[Companies] are not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Courage is…following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though… — Eric Harvey Copy Share Image
I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image