The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image