He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to… — Michael Shifter Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme,… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
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I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
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Time is a big enemy. Companies have a tendency to drift and to do what was successful yesterday. CEOs need to set… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
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![“If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or…” quote by Ursula Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/85d/ursula-vernon-21101_affectionate_if-i-do-manage-to-come-up-with-a-scheme_100482.jpg)
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