Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half."… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth.… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On Christmas morning when I was a child, my mother would leave a book wrapped at the foot of the bed, which… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever. — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image