... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and dont even require a subject. — Curt Goetz Copy Share Image
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high… — Mary Brave Bird Copy Share Image
“In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image