The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being… — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also… — Jason Babin Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I… — Harry West Copy Share Image
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand 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
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
