'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. — Ovid Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy… — William James Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
