If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party,… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it — Isidore Isou Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that… — B. J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
