Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems -… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an… — Crowder Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
There are still too many instances of police neither protecting nor serving LGBTQ and other marginalized communities. But the response shouldn't be… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image