Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own… — Steve Hockensmith Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney.… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image