At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyomachia of Homer r. For in… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
When I read articles or interviews about building culture, the suggestions are often obscure or hard to replicate. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy,… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind… — Joy Cowley Copy Share Image
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought,… — J. Allan Hobson Copy Share Image
If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image