I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are… — Harold Taylor Copy Share Image
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each… — David Copy Share Image
“The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. — Roderick E. Stevens Copy Share Image
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential… — Edwin Feulner Copy Share Image
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Black, white and nude are my essential colors. Each time I start a collection, I start with these colors; they are the… — Narciso Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image