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
We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that… — George Dzundza Copy Share Image
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out… — R. Lee Ermey Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
My job is not only to give medals, you know, which certainly is part of my function. First and foremost, though, my… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information… — John O'Toole Copy Share Image
Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
