When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this:… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed… Regardless of their record or character, all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to… — Elisabeth Leseur Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before.… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed.… — Francoise Giroud Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
