A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are… — Rob Long Copy Share Image
“She was smart like that, and lucky like that, and people loved the hell out of her. They didn’t love the hell… — Jaymin Eve Copy Share Image
The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ...… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA -- oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's[sic]… — Jerome Corsi Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le… — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I… — Tyrone Power Copy Share Image
What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don't dwell on it when you are… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
I saw the wreck on TV in the hauler when I was getting dressed to leave. I thought, 'Oh, he'll be fine.'… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history… — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I used to drive up and down Pacific Coast Highway in this black Porsche, and I had seen a couple of accidents… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image