Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools… — Jonathan Grayer Copy Share Image
Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data,… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
A lot of bodybuilders have high BMIs. It's not an indication of your overall health. Like, why put more standards on women… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The judgment that every voter is making of every one of us [running for presidency] who has the experience, who has the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens... These people are just waiting, waiting… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things - from real wages… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe,… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Because we're playing tournaments week in and week out I'd think to myself, 'What's the point in practising?' You have no down… — Adrian Lewis Copy Share Image
To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image