Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see… — John Green Copy Share Image
Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
