Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean,… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The ego is a puzzle. It is something like darkness which you can see, which you can feel, which can obstruct your… — Osho Copy Share Image
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
