They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard.… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life,… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless… Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways… — Michael Kelleher Copy Share Image
The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject,… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
