And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
“You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul,… — Manuel II Palaiologos Copy Share Image
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters… Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing… — Neal H. Moritz Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Where are you going?" "Nowhere special. I just have some... things to do." "Why did you pause?' "I'm sorry?" "You paused. You… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
This is the first global crisis that doesn't start in poor countries and it was caused by the rich countries. So it's… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Take away that reason, and he would be incapable… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“everything conspires to make us forget the socially constructed, and hence arbitrary and artificial, character of investment in the economic game and… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far… — Arthur De Vany Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
