No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and… — Anonymous 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
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure… — Abdoulaye Wade Copy Share Image
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder… — William Booth Copy Share Image
We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We… — Anne Katherine Copy Share Image
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Some of you think that attending a top business school gives you an advantage. Others think that street smarts and hands-on experience… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day… — Gabrielle Daleman Copy Share Image
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Rex Tillerson is 's in the business of exploring and finding oil across the globe. You have to go where the oil… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
