General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does a life without anxiety look like? With God as your helper, you'll sleep better tonight and smile more tomorrow. You'll… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
When someone tells me that they insist on having drinks with me, and there are some cultures where sealing the deal or… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Funny isn’t it?” said Sebastian. “The lies good people tell. He’ll probably make you eggs every day for the rest of your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don’t listen to their actions. But if… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
"I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
