Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good.… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis'… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion,… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I was speaking within the confines of this specific event, the Brexit vote. The opponents are gonna blame everything that happens on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
Learn to get in touch with the silence between yourself, and know that everything has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences,… — LifeMeans_LykA Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I like being done up! I love going to events and wearing fabulous gowns. I like hitting that spot of doing what… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have… — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to… — William III of England Copy Share Image
In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image