When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.' — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between… — Robert Stuart MacArthur Copy Share Image
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
He looked again. Longer this time. She may have ‘forgotten’ to put a bra on that morning. Another oops. “Are you kidding… — Julie James Copy Share Image
An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong. — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. — George Murray Copy Share Image
You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad… — Neal Knox Copy Share Image
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel,… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
