Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem 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
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire,… — Anonymous 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
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the… — Margaret Heckler Copy Share Image
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry,… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image