The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“While many might disagree with me, I do not believe that it’s a small step from independence to entitlement and then anarchy.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
“He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a… — John Arlott Copy Share Image
Drilling gaping holes into the crust of the earth with fallible equipment in order to summon forth millions of gallons of hydrocarbons… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question, do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
