First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
"If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
The fact that global savers accommodate U.S. consumers by keeping U.S. interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and the dollar… — John H. Makin Copy Share Image
The fact that we're at a point today where anybody, anywhere can put a comic book together and get it in front… — Darwyn Cooke Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud. the fact that… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Conservatives have woken up to the fact they weren't part of their team and they have a capability of having the kind… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image