I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to… — Sarah Winnemucca Copy Share Image
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine… — Horace Copy Share Image
Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part… — Yokoyama Sakujiro Copy Share Image
But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically… — Isa Chandra Moskowitz Copy Share Image