The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant?… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All… — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography.… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
