If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Remember everything changes and so it is necessary to understand the fact that you can't control everything. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Women need a lot of understanding, and they need songs to help them express themselves. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“This is God's beauty! The Elegant nature of Esther, The Meek nature of Moses, The Pius nature of Paul, The Passionate nature… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
