Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So,… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's a saying that I like. 'There are one billion Chinese people who couldn't care less about what I do.' My little… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun;… — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to… — McKayla Maroney Copy Share Image
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's… — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce;… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would… — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta… — Trina Gulliver Copy Share Image
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
