It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for… — Jamie Gorelick Copy Share Image
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smiles. "Oh,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's… — Tana French Copy Share Image