The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I… — Leon Wagner Copy Share Image
Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's sad to hear that 1 in 3 girls have an eating disorder, because they're trying to be something that they think… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
To the citizens of Israel, I say: We have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcome them. The future… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over… — Walter Munk Copy Share Image
You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America. I was… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
