Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can… — Robert Gilman Copy Share Image
The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great;… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You… — Mary Wells Lawrence Copy Share Image
We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in… — Stephen Brookfield Copy Share Image
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as… — Herbert Boyer Copy Share Image
By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell… — Jennifer Green Copy Share Image
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous… — Evaristo Nugkuag Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. Efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in… — Yuna Kim Copy Share Image
We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing… — Sam Wood Copy Share Image
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company… — John W. Thompson Copy Share Image