Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home… — Ruth Wisse Copy Share Image
The immigration issue is about the separation of families, and that is not human, in any country in the world, but especially… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get… — F.E. Higgins Copy Share Image
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which… — Hans Kramers Copy Share Image
I think the more dangerous and dire the political circumstances seem, the more you attach value to anything that shows you why… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings,… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live.… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that.… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
