“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image