“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes! — Nikita Dutta Copy Share Image
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride… — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
