Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The more people are exposed to the same thing, the more it seems acceptable. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
When people keep repeating That you'll never fall in love When everybody keeps retreating But you can't seem to get enough Let… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there,… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There seems to be a consistency, in that people who have had access to the Iranian program - people who actually have… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people.… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
