A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. — Laozi Copy Share Image
This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I… — Vincent Frank Copy Share Image
Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
