Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out… — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image