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Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The real Wendy is a plain, regular girl with good skin. I do have hair, if he's wondering about that. I have… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever.… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image