You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
There's also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same "something" that looks out through Curlys eyes is… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization,… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values… — David Korten Copy Share Image
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
On the beach, we women are at our most exposed and therefore most vulnerable. As any woman deserves to look and feel… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
