Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death -… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains… — Giovanni Raboni Copy Share Image
It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots,… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image