Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles. — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single… — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image