Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
As time passes on I turn the next page To discover a new me while I continue to age. I may no… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn’t go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance,… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
4. Enter stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn Must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Einstein said that time is like a river, it flows in bends. If we could only step back around the turns, we… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image