I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques... — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image