No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand Copy Share Image
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth?… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
