Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are… — Mooji Copy Share Image
...I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
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Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems… — George Sand Copy Share Image
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A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I don't think this is a situation where you can say that Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power. It'd… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
I already love the idea that Barry has a colleague. It seems like a love/hate thing between my character and his already.… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — Plato Copy Share Image
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
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I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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