We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones.… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package… — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the… — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the… — Jerry Sabloff Copy Share Image
One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then… — Robert de Castella Copy Share Image
Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls'… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president -… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image