I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion;… — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who… — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or… — Frank James Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife.… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Google, as usual, is one step ahead of everyone and provided the means where all videos on YouTube can be automatically captioned… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
