... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined;… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms, we find out who we really are. We’re… — Aaron Lines Copy Share Image
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to… — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century,… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that… — Nas Copy Share Image
Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is… — Lori Silverbush Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
