I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's… — Embeth Davidtz Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education,… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts."… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
All right, New York City! Welcome to Madison... Square... Jericho! And after tonight, when I become the true, undisputed Intercontinental champion, the… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term… — Donald W. Black Copy Share Image
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
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