Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson 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
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox in our pursuit of life. The more we fill our hearts with what the world promises will give… — Derek L. Worthington Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. The sun… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things seem out of our hands. They are, mostly. The great paradox is that this thing is totally out of our… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
Love is indeed an enigma. Nobody can tell if it is real. Nobody can feel if it is certain. And mostly, nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We dream to suffer, but we also suffer to dream. Love to hurt as we hurt to love. We speak kindly to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
“The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have… — Sam Munson Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the "one thing necessary" may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
