I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we… — Anandmurti Gurumaa Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work,… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience…And again: the… — R. Trall Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
