First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures… The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management.… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against… — Boaz Ganor Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them,… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for… — William James Copy Share Image
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions -… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended,… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to… — Tamara Ecclestone Copy Share Image
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential… — William Happer Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
