What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts,… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
“What’s this?” Nick said. “Bedtime?” No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. “You look positively content, Clayton,” Nick continued, thumping… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school… — Sarah Chalke Copy Share Image
If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works,… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that… — Phil Gingrey Copy Share Image
I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes.… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
If you feel like youre completely stuck in life right now with nowhere to go, realize you are lying to yourself. You… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image