“I am. I always was. I always am. I shall always be. The past and the future meet in the eternal now.… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done.… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naïve of questions are truly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces; it… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“this world’s a goddamn twilight zone — people wired wrong, hearts half-asleep. so i try to move through it with a little… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
When parents say, ‘I wish my child did not have autism,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘I wish the autistic child I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
