To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have -… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is… — Kerry Collins Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.” “Did he… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested… — Alan Tower Waterman Copy Share Image
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and… — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
Sunlight is essential to the body's ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image