When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out;… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
