Sissela Bok Quotes

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Sissela Bok

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PowerChildhoodSpaceLearnMystery

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.

John O. Brennan

SupportPeopleToolsAmericanMore

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

Michael Huffington

HealthChristianRememberPlaceWill

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

Robin Sloan

PeopleShortDoingSeeingSomething

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

Mohamed ElBaradei

GreatStressI AmWorldThinkSay

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Jones Very

LifeManWorldLongExistenceAct

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Phyllis Diller

LearnCareerSayHelloAudienceGet

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

Nuno Bettencourt

MorningTodayMoneyWake UpThink

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Ryan Tedder

WorkSuccessPeopleYouSuccessful

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?

Richard Dawkins

WhyFidelityObsessedMonogamous

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Lionel Hampton

GratitudeHeartMemoryMindStored

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Groucho Marx

TimeRememberSexFirst TimeFirst

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Henry Moore

ArtDisciplineStruggleDrawingMuch

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