I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are… — Seth Copy Share Image
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
If they respect you, respect them. if they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others define you. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some,… — Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Copy Share Image
We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like… — A. J. Buckley Copy Share Image
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
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