It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a… — David Lubar Copy Share Image
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or… — Mort Crim Copy Share Image
Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to… — Tony Auth Copy Share Image
P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded… — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing… — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world -… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of… — Elizabeth O'Connor Copy Share Image
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us.… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image