Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It's not a normal thing to receive a ransom demand in your inbox. I felt physically sick. — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results.… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
