Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message,… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we… — Maria Rubio Copy Share Image
If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. ..… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
