For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I think Barry Bonds was in a unique situation given his injuries from a year ago, the fact that he played in… — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island,… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material - I mean, so many books and so much stuff about what… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the… — Will Leitch Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image