She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time,… — Norman Cota Copy Share Image
The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing… — David Berg Copy Share Image
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly-… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rules are what governs us as humans, but it was wonderful to meet a man who said "There are no rules. You… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image