I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations.… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you,… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your… — Caroline Leaf Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it,… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no… — W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“The human mind is an amazing thing. It protects us when we can't protect ourselves. Sometimes when we're holding pain and it… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting… — Patrick Fugit Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation -… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind,… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing… — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
