What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is.… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My father was a plumber and I'm from the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, and I promise you, I've been to Birmingham and… — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors;… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Youth is lies. Youth is evil. Those who incessantly celebrate their teenage years are lying both to themselves and to those around… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I… — Peter Danielson Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
![“[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13b/john-carlos-16923_bills_sport-officials-blocked-their-support-of_4987.jpg)
![“[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is…” quote by Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f0b/harriet-martineau-6736_callous_on-being-deaf-we-can-never-get-beyond-th_434918.png)
