If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than… — Michael Oren Copy Share Image
I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
The best apology, I think, was from my husband, Steve, who slept with a close friend of mine decades back, when we… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love,… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a… — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image