The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It's phenomenal the kind of support Donald Trump has, despite the best efforts to suppress it, and those efforts are being made,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication,… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think what Ripple is doing is not just, 'Hey, how do we enable banks' - it's a broader effort in how… — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership.… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Mind you, physical training doesn't necessarily mean going to an expert for advice. One doesn't have to make a mountain out of… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in… — Vanessa Kerry Copy Share Image
If you want to change an external part of your life, then you are first required to change the internal beliefs that… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
