The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I also had a chance to play in Brazil for Vasco against Flamengo, the local rivals in Rio. So it is the… — Philippe Coutinho Copy Share Image
Used strategically, tariffs can increase revenue to the Treasury, encourage businesses to restore production and reduce our reliance on industrial production from… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Don't divide the world into hem and us. Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other… — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot,… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
