I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could,… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
It says no one is perfect. BUT I find it V mst eep striving for perfection becoz somewhere thru the journey V… — Nickz Copy Share Image
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want to rally itself for a new… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
“Your current struggle is a location you are passing through, not the definition of who you are. You are still standing, and… — Ibrahim B. Amunikoro Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'...Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live. — Neil Marcus Copy Share Image
“It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Heroes aren't born, but they are created in times of strife and struggle. Everyone is capable of being a hero in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the… — El Greco Copy Share Image
The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end,… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
The truth is that nothing worth having is ever easy, and all the best things in life are the result of pain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image