When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.… — Douglas Preston 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
I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
