It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After more than a hundred years of debate, quantum scientists still believe that the physical world is a law-based machine… Perhaps the… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to… — Ross Parmenter Copy Share Image
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“With battle-weary arms, Sheridan slugged his way across the luminous waves sending light-filled droplets splashing into the air like Fourth of July… — Phillip White Copy Share Image
“But life itself is without use. What is the purpose of it? Where are you going? What is the result? No purpose,… — Osho Copy Share Image
I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity,… — Arleigh Burke Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They are the ones who bring meaning to our lives, who happen to inspire, who spark a fire that we carry with… — Chirag Tulsiani Copy Share Image
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
One of the significant facts about the moment of birth is that it is an unconscious moment. No one ever knows when… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul’s unique purpose and to fill the place in the… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image