We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for… — Yul Vazquez Copy Share Image
Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
Different mediums are giving a different kind of satisfaction. The reason I do television, if I do web for the same reason,… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
