He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“...Dasein itself--and this means also its Being-in-the-world--gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
One of the thing about being President - that can't be taught, you have to experience, is - there is the sheer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life;… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist’s claim that "The earth is the Lord’s… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world,… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If you don't love your job, you can't maintain the discipline in playing that many years. It starts with the love, discipline… — Zaza Pachulia Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and… — Miguel Copy Share Image
The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
