I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world.… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We cannot have faith without belief, but we can believe without having faith. Belief is the foundation of faith. Faith is trusting… — O. Leslie Stone Copy Share Image
The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of… — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force.… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The fact that there are no longer large units of Al Qaeda running around means you don't need B-52s. You need intelligence… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head,… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
If we keep this question in mind while planning our days, we will see that we actually have countless opportunities to add… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My vision of a better world would be one under the control of a strong United Nations, one that truly has the… — Lloyd Bridges Copy Share Image
There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… [The organized moneyed people] are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image