We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me,"… — Zoe Archer Copy Share Image
“Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, America has trouble repairing its magnificent trails, so that collapsed bridges and washed-out sections are sometimes left unrepaired. We were rich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“but I do believe one ought to recognize the irreversible nature of reality, particularly if one wants to avoid it.” — John Pritchard Copy Share Image
“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Don't tell me I can not do something... because I will move heaven and earth, just to prove you wrong. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“...we are of a broad, Karamazovian nature--and this is what I am driving at--capable of containing all possible opposites and of contemplating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Leaf, branch, vine, bramble. The rush of air in my ears. The rapid-fire scuffscuffscuff of my shoes on the trail. Shards of… — RIch Yancy Copy Share Image
A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Difference making, by its very nature, is the art of taking something good and making it better. It’s an act of fine-tuning,… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
“...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from… — C. J. Wagevier Copy Share Image
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
“How many planes there are, we do not know. The levels of nature that science discriminates give us no clue, for these… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is… — Jose Yacopi Copy Share Image
My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image