The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries ,… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently… — Lawrence Anthony Copy Share Image
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Yes, there are dangerous batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina. Yes, the bowling is striking form just at the… — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
