I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime,… — Bill Jensen Copy Share Image
“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that by being ‘in love’ we are in fact falling in love with ourselves, and we have an opportunity… — Sarah Bartlett Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed ,… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“It's a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
“Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion… — Douglas Petrie Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to… — C. R. Strahan Copy Share Image
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do… — Roland Puccetti Copy Share Image
