We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically,… — Gertrude Lawrence Copy Share Image
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I told the attorneys that I had been raped in hopes that it would speed things up in the court system. However,… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known… — Gene Siskel Copy Share Image
“O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that… — Hans Denck Copy Share Image
That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
Turn your troubles into treasures. Learn from them and grow from them. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?"… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not. — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that… — Alaya Dawn Johnson Copy Share Image
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you. — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy… — Bon Scott Copy Share Image
Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
