statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good… — Howard Pyle 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
Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just… — Chad Coleman Copy Share Image
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along.… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
