If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love.… — Katy B Copy Share Image
“But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in… — John Green Copy Share Image
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes! — Iwane Matsui Copy Share Image
When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was… — Alexis Krauss Copy Share Image
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated.… — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image