For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from… — Swami Nithyananda Copy Share Image
“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content.… — David A. Goodman Copy Share Image
It's funny," she said, with a strange hitch in her voice, "but I never wanted to be tied to anyone. Never wanted… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“In our mind, it has to do with our job, or our drive home, or a fight we had with someone, or,… — Jason Donnelly Copy Share Image
