That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone.… — Richard Moe Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all of my encounters with voters, I have repeatedly been confronted with two points of critique. First: You politicians are all… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
