They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes.… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. — Robert S. de Ropp Copy Share Image
Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image