The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the… — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic,… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
