“Physical conditions play their part in all this. It is very difficult to draw the line between this and the previous cause… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be… — Ross Macpherson Smith Copy Share Image
Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I… — Jean Shrimpton Copy Share Image
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to… — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Taureans stubbornly cling to their own ideas and habits and may fail to take advantage of new ideas or situations, because they… — Taurius Copy Share Image
Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The "stage" on which you perform in film and TV is much smaller. Moving your eyes across the frame is equivalent to… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The questions about Donald Trump temperament were raised - he suggested that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image