A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give.… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting… — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things.… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image