[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The founders knew that foreign governments would try to meddle in our elections, meddle in our politics. And they did not want… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed… — Rachel Sklar Copy Share Image
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and… — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image