No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Anybody out there who has had a situation where they've had to struggle - when they want something so badly, but they… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Furthermore, recognizing our lives as pleasurable or miserable depends largely on how our mind interprets them. If you think your life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and… — Poemen Copy Share Image
“There are things you should never give up on like your convictions and ambitions but most importantly…you should never give up on… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn't come over with a comfy sponsor that took care of my visa and paid me a good amount of money… — Cesaro Copy Share Image
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground.… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
“The future - what should I do with the future? I felt like one who has climbed the brow of a great… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image