He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed… — Ruth Smeeth Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to… — Rumi Neely Copy Share Image
I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while… — Mark Haskell Smith Copy Share Image
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will… — Abebe Bikila Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with the world economy, I'm a specialist in forecasting in that area, and I have a lot of influence in… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image