When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We make movies about remarkable people like President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in "The Island President" and Al Gore in the… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following… — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
“it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact… — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would… — Moby Copy Share Image
I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself.… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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