As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance. — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness. — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented… — John Sparkman Copy Share Image
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal… — Richard Gerber Copy Share Image
Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image