We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world,… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital,… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't.… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people… — Shinzen Young Copy Share Image
You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Gay bars in America aren't weird sex clubs. They're sanctuaries. I know so many straight friends that go to gay bars more… — Marc Andreyko Copy Share Image
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Just as we responded following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and just as an earlier generation rallied in a united front… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
“If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble.… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
We're definitely still interested in the Avatar/Korra universe and fantastical world building in general, but I think many of the core themes… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image