We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I think that speaking is the most important thing we can do, but let's talk about what it means to speak effectively.… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and… — Wade Eastwood Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a… — Tex Winter Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that I would be on TV, or that I would have a video game… — Melina Perez Copy Share Image
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When… — Aesop Copy Share Image
More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
The president made it clear that he expected Congress, while they take action to repeal the most corrosive elements of Obamacare, the… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case… — Jonathan M. Goldstein Copy Share Image
The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue… — Mark Dacascos Copy Share Image
Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We had people who did housing, people who did anti-war, people who did schools. Everyone operated in their own niche, but not… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy,… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
