I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — David Attenborough 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
True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very… — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image