The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters… — Betty White Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills,… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being,… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would never think to say that one is cancer.… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this… — Greg Benson Copy Share Image