We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people… — Plato Copy Share Image
The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show… — Al Lopez Copy Share Image
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real… — Marian Deegan Copy Share Image
They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
If anybody attacks us we will readjust and mobilise ourselves for action immediately. That will be the end of the ceasefire if… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies -… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced… — Oliver Hazard Perry Copy Share Image
One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts,… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers,… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In my mind at that time, at 14, the men who were successful were Stallone and Schwarzenegger and guys like that -… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would… — Moby Copy Share Image
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
To increase your potential in life you have to be willing to learn how to excel in life. Nothing with value comes… — JSV Copy Share Image
In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people… — Jeroen van der Veer Copy Share Image
We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image