Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous 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
We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous 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
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
People have not changed. The media and its love for the fashion world behind the scenes has changed, giving people more access… — Laure Heriard-Dubreuil Copy Share Image
It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
