The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia.… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
