If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten-… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When we are old and these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream, And out of all our burning there… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“We may seek to distance ourselves from bullshit, but we are more likely to turn away from it with an impatient or… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Let's be clear on this, he growled. You have no idea how badly I want to be inside you. Standing up, lying… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Through years of experience I’ve discovered that a liar will always look into his drink when telling a lie. But he doesn’t… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way -… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie,… — Michael Urie Copy Share Image
Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the… — Lola Ridge Copy Share Image
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image