I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your… — Clinton Anderson Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of… — Mike McGavick Copy Share Image
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and… — Cara Santa Maria Copy Share Image
The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like… — Sam McCandless Copy Share Image
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics,… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
