The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything… — Jerry Kramer Copy Share Image
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root… — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer, is that human life a person under the constitution.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness,… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as… — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness:… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
