What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested… — Lynn G. Robbins Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”).… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I… — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you… — Jon Hein Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people… — David Slade Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
“Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It is my prayer that patience will be a defining characteristic of we who hold the priesthood of Almighty God; that we… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know… — Miguel Copy Share Image
Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a category-defining product. Powered by Tegra 3, it launches us into a new era of mobile… — Jen-Hsun Huang Copy Share Image
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too… — Devon Aoki Copy Share Image
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