Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
Roses are red, Violets are blue, No amount of money, Can stop me from loving you, Try as they may, Try as… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
When you have a family, even though you might move a lot, you collect all of these things. It's the detritus of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel… — William Booth Copy Share Image
...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
As we watch Republican candidates like Scott Walker and Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and George Pataki, and even Jeb Bush and… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
People can glum onto all sorts of things. And some might use this in that way instead of taking personal responsibility for… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image