A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology… — John Vane Copy Share Image
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people,… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four… — Nick Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image