5541 |
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. |
Thomas Mann |
5540 |
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always giv |
Thomas Mann |
5539 |
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. |
Thomas Mann |
5538 |
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other peop |
Thomas Mann |
5537 |
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - |
Thomas Mann |
5536 |
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? |
Gloria Steinem |
5535 |
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. |
Gloria Steinem |
5534 |
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. |
Gloria Steinem |
5533 |
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. |
Gloria Steinem |
5532 |
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. |
Gloria Steinem |
5531 |
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. |
Gloria Steinem |
5530 |
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing some |
Gloria Steinem |
5529 |
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilitie |
Gloria Steinem |
5528 |
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and |
Gloria Steinem |
5527 |
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. |
Gloria Steinem |
5526 |
Time is a game played beautifully by children. |
Heraclitus |
5525 |
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's |
Heraclitus |
5524 |
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5523 |
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5522 |
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5521 |
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5520 |
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5519 |
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5518 |
Life begins on the other side of despair. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5517 |
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5516 |
Words are loaded pistols. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5515 |
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5514 |
We are our choices. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5513 |
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5512 |
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5511 |
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5510 |
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsib |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5509 |
Hell is—other people! |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5508 |
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5507 |
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven kno |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
5505 |
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respe |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
5504 |
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
5502 |
Easy reading is damn hard writing. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
5501 |
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, b |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
5500 |
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. |
George W. Bush |
5499 |
I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong. |
George W. Bush |
5498 |
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about |
George W. Bush |
5497 |
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. |
George W. Bush |
5496 |
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it. |
George W. Bush |
5495 |
It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! |
George W. Bush |
5494 |
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. |
George W. Bush |
5493 |
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop think |
George W. Bush |
5492 |
If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm |
George W. Bush |
5491 |
I think war is a dangerous place. |
George W. Bush |
5490 |
They misunderestimated me. |
George W. Bush |
5489 |
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictur |
George W. Bush |
5488 |
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5487 |
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5486 |
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality w |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5485 |
What was more, they had taken the first step towrd genuine friendship. They had |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5484 |
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5483 |
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5482 |
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5481 |
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligen |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5480 |
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by reli |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5479 |
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5478 |
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little wa |
Arthur C. Clarke |
5475 |
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |
François de La Rochefoucauld |
5474 |
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, i |
None |
5473 |
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. |
Walter Benjamin |
5472 |
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because |
Walter Benjamin |
5471 |
An organism at war with itself is doomed. |
Carl Sagan |
5470 |
You have to know the past to understand the present. |
Carl Sagan |
5469 |
Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accu |
Carl Sagan |
5468 |
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any h |
Carl Sagan |
5467 |
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in t |
Carl Sagan |
5466 |
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lo |
Carl Sagan |
5465 |
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beauti |
Carl Sagan |
5464 |
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be co |
Carl Sagan |
5463 |
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our a |
Carl Sagan |
5462 |
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned |
Carl Sagan |
5460 |
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled lo |
Carl Sagan |
5459 |
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. |
Carl Sagan |
5458 |
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of |
Carl Sagan |
5457 |
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. |
Carl Sagan |
5456 |
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. |
Carl Sagan |
5455 |
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Ency |
Carl Sagan |
5454 |
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste o |
Carl Sagan |
5453 |
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with fl |
Carl Sagan |
5452 |
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from |
Carl Sagan |
5451 |
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. |
Carl Sagan |
5450 |
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe |
Carl Sagan |
5449 |
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. |
Carl Sagan |
5448 |
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptic |
Carl Sagan |
5447 |
We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the sam |
Carl Sagan |
5446 |
It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out. |
Carl Sagan |
5445 |
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. |
Carl Sagan |
5444 |
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind a |
Carl Sagan |
5443 |
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, f |
Carl Sagan |
5442 |
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees wi |
Carl Sagan |
5441 |
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to |
Carl Sagan |
5440 |
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good |
Carl Sagan |
5439 |
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go |
Carl Sagan |
5438 |
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. |
Carl Sagan |
5436 |
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. |
Carl Sagan |