It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose… — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years.… — Brely Evans Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately -… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal,… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of Marxism is the total control of a population under the belief that individualism and free markets lead to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of personal, professional or even spiritual… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is… — Indra Sinha Copy Share Image
Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision,… — John-Roger Copy Share Image
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because… — Amadou Bagayoko Copy Share Image
Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working. You'll work harder… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun.… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You have to explain to little children 'why' and you also have to listen to them and believe me, they will reason… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image