Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them.… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the… — Brandon Andress Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
