It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“Meditation, godliness, enlightenment, nirvana, they all came into being through love, because through love a glimpse was achieved. And when the glimpse… — Osho Copy Share Image
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
