The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The notion of people commenting on you, the notion of people saying things about you, people liking or disliking you and getting… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“(God speaking)...just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Marriage of a man and a woman is clear in Biblical teaching in the Old Testament as well as in the New… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
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