In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much;… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if… — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect,… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years,… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most difficult things to see are those that have been right in front of us all along… We who have… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new. — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Try. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Try better. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Try better still. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Repeat until... Try. Succeed. — Ken Evoy Copy Share Image
People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns.… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send… — Jules Ferry Copy Share Image
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to… — Henry Kett Copy Share Image
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image