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
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
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size,… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we… — William James Copy Share Image
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades… — Caroline Lawrence 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
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
I worry about Bieber, man. That kid’s wildly talented. I hope he doesn’t fall down into the usual ways of young kids… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
