While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any… — Steve Fainaru Copy Share Image
“The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs....… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
“Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
The lessons of history show - and I'm not talking about any particular history, all history - when you see minor abuses… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal. — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which… — Alan Price Copy Share Image
In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image