The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all… — Adam C. Engst Copy Share Image
I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national… — Malachi Ritscher Copy Share Image
How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off,… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless.… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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