Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds,… — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We certainly ... hope that the Congress will act in an appropriate fashion and not waste its time with ineffectual, sham legislation… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and to take… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image