[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
By the time it's considered socially acceptable to start screwing, most of us are sexually constipated, and this is often an incurable… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
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
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
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
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it… — Roxane Gay 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
I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no… — Julia Golding Copy Share Image