It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls… — SARK Copy Share Image
I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Giving something back is a huge deal. You'll notice every successful athlete uses that at some point in his career during an… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality,… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We must each walk through life on our own, but we don't have to do it alone. God wants a powerful people.… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.'… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image