To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized… — William Woodruff Copy Share Image
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does.… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A love affair is a grafting operation. "What has once been joined never forgets". There is a moment when the graft takes;… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
Frank, open the door! I know you're in there! You got a woman in there? Fine, I am sick of your mess!… — Juanita Copy Share Image
Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. — Moliere Copy Share Image
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten Copy Share Image
I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why waste your energy in an affair, especially if your relationship is worth saving? Why not risk being open before you cheat,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God. — Mark Shriver Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
