“To my lovely starling, Maybe there are magical words that will make you understand, but if so, I do not know them.… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
“History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
“There was something damningly exhilarating about ending a human life.” — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
“Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A human life is a schoolingAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. for… — Gottfried Keller Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
