LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human… — Rhianna Copy Share Image
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
There are a variety of groups, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Sierra Club, that are groups that do very good work,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them… — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
