A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain; anything usual makes… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy,… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were,… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life,… — Albert Ellis 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
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man… — Theodor Adorno 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
Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
(1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without… — Fuller Albright Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London.… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone.… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
This year I've really decided to get into the best shape of my life, and I've gotten there by changing not only… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image