All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In reading Ameen Rihani... I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice... and my envy of Mr.… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
Future system busters will always seem like problem children. But the truth is, they just can't be compacted into any system, and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of. — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them. — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any… — Derek Webb Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image