I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was,… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The New York Times ran a story about [Jeff] Sessions meeting the Russian ambassador, and they ran Claire McCaskill's tweet excoriating Sessions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we… — Bob Corker Copy Share Image
It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Matt Lauer asked her [Hillary Clinton] tough questions, in fact, questions that should have been asked and followed up on by the… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image