The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Um, yeah, it's one of the things that you kind of have to accept at the very beginning, like I'm not going… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
“We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
“Her eyes shifted to me, piercing my soul in the process. “Your troubles are temporary, Miss Annabelle. You will grow and mature… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I come from a protected environment of a Juhu house, and I wasn't exposed to life as shown in 'Highway'. It's not… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams; according to your joy;… — Seth Copy Share Image
I love the 'Housewives.' I don't watch 'American Idol' or 'X Factor.' I guess I don't like network reality: I like my… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him… — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human… — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
“Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
We want to be more than just being the Bella Twins and the stars of these reality TV shows. I want to… — Brie Bella Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I'd taken a deep breath before asking about his relationship history. It was the start of this new part of our relationship,… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Dear GOD, help me to accept listening when I can't hear, asking wen I can't know, looking when I can't see. Make… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as… — Paulie Malignaggi Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image