One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes. — Hillel the Elder Copy Share Image
Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil,… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce? — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise,… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it… — William Powell Copy Share Image
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. — Donald Grant Mitchell Copy Share Image
What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image