We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead… — Roger A. Pielke Copy Share Image
Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us… — William James Copy Share Image
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly… — Stephen Toulmin Copy Share Image
For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image