Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
Travel does not exist without home…If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The… — James Salter Copy Share Image
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees… — Witter Bynner Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface-… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image