Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how… — Scott Hicks Copy Share Image
The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Feng Shui is all about the subconscious interaction between planetary and mental energies.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image