The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
Bernie [Sanders], the team player, he made it known from the very start that he would be supporting the Democratic nominee, presumably… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In science there is something known as a stem cell. A stem cell is an undifferentiated cell which has not yet decided… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my… — Zona Gale Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
I believe in the importance of unity among those who know Christ, who profess to be "Christians." . . . I believe… — James Robison Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things because it made people happy… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think… — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other… — Regina King Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image