“Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in… — Carson Grant Copy Share Image
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The restoration ... of the image of God ... the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“I say expressly, that the mind has not an adequate but only a confused knowledge of itself, its own body, and of… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
What would be important to me in a moment like this one would be not to deem a mans life or Mankind… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance!… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ. Let us on earth be as the elders… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“...the exorcist should not believe too readily that a person is possessed by an evil spirit; but he aught to ascertain by… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Jealousy and anger are two common nature of human being. As I feel there is nothing that can stop us from feeling… — GK Dutta Copy Share Image
Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I wasn't frightened going to outer space. I'd been living this in my head for many, many years, so I sort of… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
“The nature of commitment: you can never know in advance whether you will achieve your goals; all you can do is keep… — Russ Harris Copy Share Image
It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grieve… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more… — Julia Whitty Copy Share Image
