A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. .… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that… — George Bird Grinnell Copy Share Image
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would… — Melville Elijah Stone Copy Share Image
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else. — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Everything is done by CONTRACT. It DOESN'T matter whether it's Civil or Criminal. There is NO LAW anymore because there is NO… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem,… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
