To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. Peace Pilgrim Read Quote
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time – well into the eighteenth century. Wilhelm Dilthey Read Quote
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. Margaret Chan Read Quote
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people’s votes for granted for decades – as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections. Nicola Sturgeon Read Quote
Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital. Sam Graves Read Quote
Something great about ‘The Last Ship’ is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together. John Pyper-Ferguson Read Quote
Early on, someone had told me, ‘You know, the camera can always tell when you’re lying.’ And, Jesus, that intimidated me. ‘The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?’ Until one day I thought, ‘Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.’ Michael Douglas Read Quote
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old. Alvin Lee Read Quote
