It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas… — Robert Ashley Copy Share Image
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our… — Chris Rapley Copy Share Image
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I switched from indoor to beach I had been playing indoor for 12 years. And, to be honest, to make a living… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid.… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
