You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no… — William James Copy Share Image
That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere;… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that the simpler the title, the better. Whenever I try to get cute with it, it seems to… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer,… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do...… — Triple H Copy Share Image
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish… — Max Born Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Broader interpretation that often seems to underlie the new economy label is that we are witnessing a more fundamental change in… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image