Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really… — William James Copy Share Image
There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups.… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. — Sting Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work.… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
