It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the… — Seth Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness. — Seimone Augustus Copy Share Image
Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a… — Monique Leyrac Copy Share Image
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People support me because the Argentine people have understood that the other path is a road to misery. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified… — Elton John Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I was overwhelmed. He understood me so well, how nervous I was about making this commitment, how frightening it was for me… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself. — Blanche Willis Howard Copy Share Image
