It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music,… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.” — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“There is no light in knowledge unless it illuminates the life of mankind.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid -… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
