The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet's not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given,… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the nutritive… — Frederick J. Stare Copy Share Image
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Earl Mills is probably the best role I've ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the… — William Ames Copy Share Image
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many things that it's hard to define what that is or when it happens. It's always been a… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image