Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between… — Robert Stuart MacArthur Copy Share Image
It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them.… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives,… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
People often seem to think that when you're following the Lord and trying to do His will, your path will always be… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
I don't know how a culture is going to evolve, but I think the way the Internet works now is, people go… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
When you have to cast movies from a producer's standpoint - when you've been on the other side of casting sessions -… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The biggest piece of advice I would give to other women and girls is that it's really hard, and I feel like… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then… — Don Scardino Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
I dream about going back, but I know that it isn't easy. Thirty years of being in Europe has changed my life.… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power?… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary,… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I always remind myself that the world is bigger than Hollywood, because I need to. Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have… — Sarah Carter Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
The first rule of PR is to get out in front of the story, and I think I was practicing that. It… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image