I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but… — Joyce Jillson Copy Share Image
I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also]… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can… — Abdu'l-Bahá 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
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other,… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the… — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city… — Susette La Flesche Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image