I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of… — Edna Woolman Chase Copy Share Image
If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When… — Jillian Michaels 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
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host. — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to… — Brandon Bays Copy Share Image
I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — David Bayles Copy Share Image
