The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe… — Mark Hosler Copy Share Image
To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the… — Tyson Chandler Copy Share Image
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying .… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
“Scientifically, I know beginnings don't exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything she is was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he… — Betsy Brannon Green Copy Share Image
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image