[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded,… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I listen to purely Christian Worship Music, Christian Rap etc. People will give me some old music, stuff I used to listen… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, I like to juice up several different kinds of fruit and vegetables - which may include various combinations of bananas, red… — David H. Murdock Copy Share Image
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am diagnosed with what's called 'REM behavior disorder.' As far as the disorder goes, there's no cure, but it's going pretty… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Energy Engineering started first in IIT Kharagpur in 1983 and mine was the third batch. It was definitely not a popular course.… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image