The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it… — Martin Khor Copy Share Image
You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting… — Jacob Lew Copy Share Image
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
And "all the above" [what President Barack Obama calls his policy of promoting all forms of domestic energy], compared to "drill, baby,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on… — John Wright Copy Share Image
