The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It's not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game. — Tim Page Copy Share Image
I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look… — Michel Bauwens Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk. — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,"… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
