Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both… — Irving Azoff Copy Share Image
He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this… — Greg Benson Copy Share Image
People like to say, “Well, you’re a celebrity. You should really pick a cause.” I felt that’s like telling a doctor, “Well,… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory… — Simon Romero Copy Share Image
I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living… — Charles Lee Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are… — Avery Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a… — Jim Anderson Copy Share Image
Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making… — Genie Francis Copy Share Image