These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for.… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Great people in the United States have been disenfranchised.I'll give you an example, it has always been the way to do it,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image