Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us… — Reshad Feild Copy Share Image
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the… — Cher Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image