It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline… — Plato Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things. — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that,… — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
