The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition… — Seth Copy Share Image
“...are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do… — Stephen Donaldson Copy Share Image
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from breaking onto… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having… — William James Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while… — Rumi Copy Share Image
