There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that,… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
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In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which… — Ghassan Andoni Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
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To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
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When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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