For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me… — Anna D. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure,… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image