The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the… — Phil Morris Copy Share Image
God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
Being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trump's speeches for the last two or three weeks… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has… — John Monash Copy Share Image
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid… — Broda Otto Barnes Copy Share Image
I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
