I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I was a little too antsy, I was jumping around, wanting to go here, wanting to be there. Once I started smoking… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who… — John Brown Copy Share Image
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't think it's something that people would ask a man. Some people make a huge deal out of the fact that… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Then there is my country, the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte placed most of the country under a lockdown on the ides of… — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are... there… — Walter White Copy Share Image
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness.… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
