The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIV/AIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we… — Theodore Edgar McCarrick Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church,… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however,… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police… — Warren Ballentine Copy Share Image
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks.… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man… — Seanbaby Copy Share Image
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
