A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see,… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you think communism is too hard a word - necessitates for government to be your god. And for government to be… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane? — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm." — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's look at lending, where they're using big data for the credit side. And it's just credit data enhanced, by the way,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
