The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to… — Mike Lookinland Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will… — Alex Johnston Copy Share Image
The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a… — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder -… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life,… — John D. Rockefeller III Copy Share Image
Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's… — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
