In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one… — William James Copy Share Image
Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken… — Hugh Panaro Copy Share Image
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and… — Ian McDiarmid Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small… — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity.… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are… — Eric Horvitz Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Another point important to recognize is that the creation was 'mature' from its birth. It did not have to grow or develop… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned for me all that was taken from me and done… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never… — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image