We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that… — Timothy Bottoms Copy Share Image
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is… — Helen Van Wyk Copy Share Image
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material,… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
