Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the… — Sting Copy Share Image
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'd be at someone's house or be up on the roof all day and I'd get lonely - stir crazy - and… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
My ideas come, and there is a deep desire to create. Sometimes it's stronger than me. Sometimes I have to do projects… — Blanca Li Copy Share Image
I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake,… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
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When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image