We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve...… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult… — Kathy Whitworth Copy Share Image
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time,… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
My grandma used to make syrup for us because we couldn't afford it and I just played around with her recipe. I… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn’t that your job? (Devyn) No. I’m… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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