There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to… — Oveta Culp Hobby Copy Share Image
It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because… — Keisha Castle-Hughes Copy Share Image
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of… — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
“He even considered the idea that the shock might extinguish them and they’d simply whiff out like candle flames in a strong… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it… — Philip J. Corso Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone.… — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I… — Chris Moneymaker Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites.… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
