The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to… — Sun Simiao Copy Share Image
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist… — William Carey Copy Share Image
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
