Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things.… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit… — Friedrich Accum Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client… — Geoffrey Fieger Copy Share Image