History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. And things might not always work out like you think they should.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image