The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources,… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“There were other, more subtle artistic effects. The slow shift of the light through each day caused shadows to drift, shorten and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political… — Gyorgy Lukacs Copy Share Image
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in… — Henry Lee III Copy Share Image
The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could… — Michele Flournoy Copy Share Image
Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image