We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created. Stanley Hauerwas Read Quote
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. Conrad Black Read Quote
I remember I used to play football in my childhood and my team had people from different faiths and backgrounds. It had the son of the person who would take us to the school on his rickshaw or the guy who came to pick up our garbage but I never knew this. Shoojit Sircar Read Quote
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. Franz Marc Read Quote
It’s never easy for an actor who doesn’t have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch. Bhumi Pednekar Read Quote
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don’t know exactly what’s in Matt Cooper’s notes, and we don’t know – and we don’t still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame’s name to him. Michael Isikoff Read Quote
Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they’re singing. I think you really have to think about what you’re singing. You have to make the public believe what you’re singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it. Frankie Valli Read Quote
When I used to try and describe what the Khan Academy was, I would tell people that if it were a for-profit, I would be on the cover of ‘Forbes.’ Sal Khan Read Quote
If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don’t vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents’ parents fought for? Brian Tyree Henry Read Quote
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you. Harold Feinstein Read Quote