I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond… — Belle S. Spafford Copy Share Image
You can dramatically change your life but only if you have the desire to change, the decision to take action, the discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of an editor's job is in fact pretty nanny-like in nature: in many ways, you're there to protect and defend, to… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
During the production of the Steamboy film, what I put my most effort in was the process of layouts, and I did… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Something you can control is your effort and your energy and playing defense. And for me that's always been a catalyst for… — Alex Caruso Copy Share Image
Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that… — Frédéric Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably,… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations.… — Katie Ledecky Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or… — Moby Copy Share Image
I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“You see any signs of trouble, anything at all, you turn yourself around and you run as fast as you can in… — Keith Houghton Copy Share Image
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
