People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b)… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Does everybody have their WWJD bracelets on? 'Cause I was wearing my bracelet recently, and I was in the movie theater, and… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party… — Vishwajeet Pradhan Copy Share Image
“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“With stumbling feet, he blindly walked somewhere, anywhere. When he got to the king's study, he looked over his shoulder and checked… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it;… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it.… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati Copy Share Image
We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text,… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“When did the body first set out on its own adventures? Snowman thinks; after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image