I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or… — Buck 65 Copy Share Image
Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried… — Robert Patrick Copy Share Image
Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I attended law school, the progression into a career in corporate law was almost foreordained. I set about to craft a career… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“First time was instinct. I hear O’Leary go, “Jesus,” and there’s a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he’d… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I tell my daughters, 'If something doesn't feel right, whether that's going to a party, doing a video, shooting something, you're around… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
“ 'I can get mad all I want, but they don't mean it. They love me. Sometimes, some creatures, when they get… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
