It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
“It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture;… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it. — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq… — Georgie Anne Geyer Copy Share Image