I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on… — Alex Riley Copy Share Image
Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
It's wrong to believe that you need a certain physical body type to run. All body types can run. It's not about… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image