As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral. — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great &… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
