A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who… — Carlos E. Asay Copy Share Image
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to… — Allan Donald Copy Share Image
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story… — Doug Wead Copy Share Image
We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on… — Adam Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us.… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image