We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I didn't really adapt to Scottish football well, but I enjoyed my time there. The physical nature and the pace of the… — Teemu Pukki Copy Share Image
[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer. — Lisa Hannigan Copy Share Image
“But like a pointillist painting, the true nature of this solar monument was clear only from a distance: the colosal horse-drawn chariot… — Bob Berman [The Sun's Heartbeat Copy Share Image
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“ Cannabis sativa and its derivatives are strictly prohibited in Turkey, and the natural correlative of this proscription is that alcohol, far… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.” — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle.… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm an astrobiologist, and I come from a planetary science background, so in a very broad sense, I study the evolution of… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Survivors who try to get help to protect themselves and their children are often seen as “hysterical, crazy, and unstable.” This is… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don't understand these images that are empowering me. My… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. — David Milch Copy Share Image
“God put me on earth for a few specific reasons. Being your mom was the most important and I I thank Him… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image