The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house.… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul -… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than… — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes… — Prince Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
When you see Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and it's shot on film at 75mm it's...you know. It's hard to compare. But… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
