I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what… — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
“It is only through examining history that you become aware of where you stand within the continuum of change.” — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship -… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have… — George Ratliff Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption,… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
She said she thought it [ letter "C"] meant alphabetical order. But nobody bothered to ask did she ever see an "A,"… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think that people tend to look at the paintings as being resolved or finite. But, to me, a painting can be… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image