At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer… — Thomas Beddoes Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security… — William Davis Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Whether you have a small team or a large team, you'll always have a percentage of people telling you to do the… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image