A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering.… — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real… — Horace Dediu Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk -… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use.… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources… They enlarge his… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset. — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. — Rumi Copy Share Image
And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight. — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
