The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts… — Shaka Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick. — John McCain Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
