To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your… — Chris Ramsey Copy Share Image