TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us?… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south… — David Petraeus 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
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which… — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
What happened in my personal life affected my career too. I am not perfect and I have made a lot of mistakes.… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A… — John Scott Copy Share Image
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth,… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
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