Quotes By Popular Topics: [A]
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.
Because life's too short to blush,I keep my blood tucked in.
Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. ...
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What ...
The power in people is stronger than people in power.
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening ...
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...
To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.
We shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing ...
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a ...
Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to ...
But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the ...
In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted ...
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.
From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama ...
How self-centered, how arrogant ... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and ...
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no ...
There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, ...
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works ...
I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years ...
My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flagthey died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard ...
In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the ...
I like reading. I just hate school.
We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.
It's a wise thing to hold back.
This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against ...
Do you believe in Aertus and Vilai?"Aaron hesitated, but let a slight smirk grow again. "Sure, I believe the moons exist. They're right there in ...
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find ...
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization ...
The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow ...
Someone simply puts his money without analysing anything, then he can be said to a squanderer who does not value his own money.
That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one ...
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was ...
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the ...
A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the ...
We can have Americans eating affordably and eating in a way that's sustainable.
Life is fair, truth is faith
I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.
Perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.
Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands.Then we'll ask ourselves, Was Andalusia here or there? On earth, ...
I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive ...
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple ...
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint ...
A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations ...
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over ...
Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.
Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ...
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, ...
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to ...
That's the good thing about hanging with bloggers. Most of them are kind of fucked up in the same way you are.
I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the ...
It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all ...
In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one ...
We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language ...
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
Eww, he said. I almost said the same thing, but unlike my brother, I had been annealed in the furnace of Scientific Thought. Scientists do ...
I lifted onto my toes, put my hands aroung his neck, and pulled him down. When our lips met, that first jolt ... It was ...
With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of ...
Winter is already a lost shape, forgottenin the ground. Instead, here is Springwith all the grace of a womansmoothing out her apron.
Speechless During The Angriness, I Want To Commit Myself For Becoming A Self-Motivated And Determined Because Don't Hold To Anger, Hurt Or Pain. They Effect ...
The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing ...
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
Our forefathers understood the dangers of consolidated power. This is why they provided for a separation of powers within the U.S. Government between the three ...
She's coming here with Aer Lingus.
When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.
The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed.
A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.
The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly ...
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining ...
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of ...
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to ...
My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature ...
Life is all about Ass. You're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, bursting it, or trying to get a piece of ...
He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the ...
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the ...
Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
I pushed it aside. I didn't want to get love feelin's all mixed in with my bitter ones. The one might somehow destroy the other.
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
I've always though Marx's view on religion was the one thing he got right. Faith is a crutch.''If you step on a land mine,' Akhmed ...
When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig ...
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.