The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For some reason, we can't go to Cuba, businesses in American can't do business in Cuba. I think that that is stupid.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation.… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God.… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to… — Nick Thune Copy Share Image
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to… — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida,… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense… — Al Gore Copy Share Image