Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as… — Edwin Paxton Hood Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image