LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works.… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
When I was in the Western Command from 1964 to 1967, I think 100 strikes must have happened. They just have given… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
“As Hoffa put it, “Nobody can describe the sit-down strikes, the riots, the fights that took place in the state of Michigan,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited… There is no rightto… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs;… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
There were between 46 and 52 drone strikes under the [George W.] Bush administration. And now there are over 400 - that's… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image