When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The kernel of the 11th house is 'the urge to become something greater than we already are'. — Howard Sasportas Copy Share Image
A stronger race will drive out the weaker ones, for the vital urge in its ultimate form will break down the absurd… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
