I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make… — Melanie Roach Copy Share Image
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time… — Mikhail Prokhorov Copy Share Image
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge. — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But… — David Stove Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being… — Croesus Copy Share Image
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image