Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“I just think we shouldn't judge her, or anyone, without trying to understand them first. That maybe we should get the full… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power… — Hal Finney Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image