As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Your important relationships should be at the forefront of your priority list. When we take things for granted, these things eventually get… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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