When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about… — Mark Sykes Copy Share Image
Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical… — William James Copy Share Image
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting… — Michael Copps Copy Share Image
You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image