It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
In fact, [Bernard Leach] was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix [MacKenzie] and I… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image