Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I believed that President Obama was a good choice a couple of years ago because I felt that, as a black man,… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured… — Coco Austin Copy Share Image
Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When we're ready to do the dress rehearsal, we'll rehearse in the dark. No lights. The reason why I do that is… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“But here you might have noticed something. I said, ‘It stands to reason’. Do you see ? Men have a weapon against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You think of it [voicing] as something where you not only don't //need// your body, but you don't even have it to… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
Student debt in the US has exploded in the past decade. One of the reason is that the private costs of attending… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there… — Guy Picciotto Copy Share Image
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything… — Tommy James Copy Share Image
People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image