God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do… — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional… — Daniel Goleman 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
“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch.… — Kelley Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
