It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of… — Aga Khan III Copy Share Image
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic -- or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no meaning when you're living in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark!… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.” — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener. — Ian Dury Copy Share Image
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business.… — Pericles Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me - what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school,… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
