As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” — Joe L. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one… — John Adams Copy Share Image