When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to… — F. Gary Gray Copy Share Image
That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I've learned that I am strong enough. When some people might have given up, I didn't. I found myself in situations where… — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were,… — Anderson Cooper 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
