Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“What is dying? I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She… — Charles Henry Brent Copy Share Image
“Enraged I throw myself to the ground and I scream, my best friend is gone, this world is so mean. I cry… — Michele Lena Lucy Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286… — Matt Ghaffari Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult… — Alice Stewart Copy Share Image
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be… — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D Copy Share Image
“That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you need to. Feel… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I can not hear your laughter. I can not see your smile. I wish that we could talk again If only for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“I recall that in the immediate aftermath of those losses at Candlestick, I lost all healthy perspective, my ordinarily sober and sensible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On… — Rich Franklin Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We lost our everything, she said, which said everything about loss. My accumulation dictates my ruin; it’s different from your dismantling, which… — Andrea Cohen Copy Share Image
Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss.… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us... Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image