.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse.… — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I noticed that the crowds in the US seem to do a lot more moshing than European fans. But it's also different… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway. — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I dont talk about it too much in the press is because… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
What we love is that Glenn Geller admits to being a superfan of Big Brother and obviously he seems to be a… — Allison Grodner Copy Share Image
The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world… — Max Picard Copy Share Image
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
