To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of… — James Otis Copy Share Image
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image