To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the… — John Noble Copy Share Image
I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image