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
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 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
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
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
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware… — James Small Copy Share Image
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Inner peace does not depend on external conditions; its what remains when youve surrendered your ego and your worries. Peace can happen… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good… — Elmer Keith Copy Share Image
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He's spent time in jail. He… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim… — Christopher R. Hill Copy Share Image