Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think its just important to do something. Some sort of exercise. I get asked this a lot. It's important to do… — Nick Youngquest Copy Share Image
I am very domesticated. Some of my favorite things in life are being a mother and a wife. That's where I get… — Sable Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in'… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past… — Martial Copy Share Image
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence… — Randy West Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
