The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact:… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Again she dances on the edge of my consciousness, laughing at me in my dreams. This is only fair. I cast myself… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
“Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. — Frank Popoff Copy Share Image
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
“The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions,… — Norman Grubb Copy Share Image
It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
