Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is.… — H. E Davey Copy Share Image
Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If you mean allot to me I'm going to tell you, I'm going to show you in anyway I can,but if you… — Unknow Timmi Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“His experience of the world and his empathy for other people produced a body of work that adamantly refused ready categories, received… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and… — Rob Andrew Copy Share Image
When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Nikkas? Let's get real out here... All you want from her is sex right? Now why don't you just ask then go… — Evan Ceaser Copy Share Image
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There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image