Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of… — Joshua Braff Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then… — Don Scardino Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and… — James Agee Copy Share Image
There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment… — Randy Carlson Copy Share Image
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken, And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.' Pigs on parade, but… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If your definition of homosexuality is being able to do whatever you want to, and that you should be able to go… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
