Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also… — Christine Baranski Copy Share Image
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
