it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than… — Carl W. Ackerman Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic,… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image