The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. — John McDonald Copy Share Image
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
I admire Maguire for the way he persevered to force his way back into Erik ten Hag's line-up. — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
