To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
