People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program,… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit. — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
