People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's. — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Whenever I get opportunities at the top of the order, that's the position I enjoy. — K. L. Rahul Copy Share Image
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they… — William James Copy Share Image
You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is… — John Stott Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
The baseline is the same. Is Iran going to suspend enrichment activity? Is Iran going to return to the negotiations? Or is… — Joseph Adam Ereli Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about… — Richard Flanagan 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
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
