There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been,… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west,… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much.… — Jordyn Wieber Copy Share Image
When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth.… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits… — Leigh-Allyn Baker Copy Share Image
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all… — Frank Press Copy Share Image
In the short run, the big windfall winners ... have been the Islamists. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
