I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument.… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“In an argument, a “teller” will frequently remind you of how well they treat you, even after blatantly hurting you. A “show-er”… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines;… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One particularly poor argument in defence of eating meat is that if humans did not eat animals, those animals would not have… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Hey!” Ignoring my indignant protest, the prince proceeds up the incline, his steps sure and steady despite the rough terrain and my… — Alex Lidell Copy Share Image
When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image