Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the… — Nancy Tillman Copy Share Image
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with that magical mindset during sporting competition where one feels completely zoned in on what's happening. There are occasional nights… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that… — Joe Namath Copy Share Image
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Everything a detainee says is classified. Detainees cannot talk to you. They cannot talk to anyone. They cannot challenge, in a meaningful… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
It's both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence,… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen… But toemigrate… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As a business man running a huge enterprise, it wouldn't be smart for me to discuss my potential business decisions with a… — Marty Scurll Copy Share Image
Now, with social media, it's a whole different world, which is good and bad. Back when I was in college, when there… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They have to sort out their problems and the best way for us is to trade with the world don't be this… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
