I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from… — Koki Hirota Copy Share Image
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels.… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern,… — Trevor Howard Copy Share Image
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead… — Winnie Ewing Copy Share Image
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere...… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas.… — Peter Hambleton Copy Share Image
I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it… — Abderrahmane Sissako Copy Share Image
To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
I gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and warned of Trump. America has survived for almost 250 years… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image