I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that.… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. — Horace Copy Share Image
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
