Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work. — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. — John Keats Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me;… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though… — Chess Desalls Copy Share Image
The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image