Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“Here is one reason I think we always need new tarot decks being created. I think of tarot decks as similar to… — Barbara Moore Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use… — Nomy Lamm Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image