The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think that it's inevitable if society will be run by old-timers who are still in the paradigm of the past, so… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable? — Lemmy Copy Share Image
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them;… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
