The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art.… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
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You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school.… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world,… — Cynthia Erivo Copy Share Image
“I wonder if anyone will know what I mean when I say that some people make the world seem like a large… — Tales of Mere Existence Copy Share Image
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, where we say we need equality, we don't think highly of ourselves. We don't give much… — Kubra Sait Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
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