The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“precedes a change. A spontaneous one. One that I do not control, to be exact. Panic swelled in my chest. What would… — Sommer Marsden Copy Share Image
There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“No event is spontaneous; it is the result of many past events. This is karma. The events in your life are the… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Sometimes the spirit is playing you. I call it following the will of the music, and when that feeling shows up, you… — Charlie Musselwhite Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside.… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
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