I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
No political party is justified to continue in existence unless it clearly states the principles which it advocates, the platform upon which… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the… — Stu Grimson Copy Share Image
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the… — Mary Margaret McBride Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
