Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking;… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees.… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me,… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free. — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do. — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image