That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family -… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
“I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin?… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7… — Rick Rollens Copy Share Image
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
