People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges… — Thomas Frey Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The shift in national power may be overshadowed by an even more fundamental shift in the nature of power. Enabled by communications… — National Research Council Copy Share Image
My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“But in those days, I thought that by believing in magic and miracles, by believing hard enough, harder than anyone on earth,… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Last night I learned that for everyone alive on earth today, there are thirty ghosts lined up behind them. Not literally lined… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since… — Manuel Lempereur Copy Share Image
Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Historically, cities were built on rivers or natural harbors to ease the flow of goods. But these days, since shipping costs have… — Robert Kunzig Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All… — Laozi Copy Share Image
What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“London, its conglomerate nature mirroring his own, its reticence also his; its gargoyles, the ghostly footfalls in its streets of Roman feet,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Normally, 'nature' means plants, animals, the scenery, and additional aspects and products of the world, in opposition to humans or human creations.… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
As far as natural calamities are concerned, Odisha had a very bad reputation before 2000 when we took over the government. After… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Stress is a natural and normal part of being alive. Stress-free promises set people up for failure. Even when used with good… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“The erotic instinct is something questionable, and will always be so whatever a future set of laws may have to say on… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never… — ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“IT is no accident that Marx should have begun with an analysis of commodities when, in the two great works of his… — György Lukács Copy Share Image
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
