I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs…

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have observed over a long lifetime that mental stability is not all it's cracked up to be.”

— Neal Barrett Jr

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they…

— John Cleveland

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it…

— Robert Sheaffer

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

— Gene Tierney

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the…

— George Grey

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

— Duane Michals

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

— John Rawls

“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow…

— G.K. Chesterton

It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work…

— Catherine Booth

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer…

— Jakob Nielsen