Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or… — Francis Daniels Moore Copy Share Image
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs. — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
