We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships.… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and… — Jake Weber Copy Share Image
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people. — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras. — Kitty Carlisle Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness.… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image