I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material. — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
