“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek… — Samuel Colman Copy Share Image
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps… — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";… — John Balguy Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival,… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image