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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
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I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth.… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
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We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
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You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude."… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I mean Georgia, and also Belfast, aren't the most stable places, politically, in the world. But the thing is, in both places,… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
When you have so much to give from your heart; don't hold it. Not only to humans but everything around you that… — Ces Peta Copy Share Image
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
When women and blacks were let in, the system didn't miss a beat. When gays are given their equality, the system will… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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I'm glad that my journey has been gradual and slow, instead of instant, because that allowed me to grow and discover who… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image