The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes.… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The left, led by the news media, has been telling us practically from the day that Donald Trump announced his candidacy that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Students of American history may recall that Alexander Hamilton had an affair while in public office, but when he quickly confessed publicly… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good…… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
I'm a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I've always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the… — William Weld Copy Share Image
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
