My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie… — Mark Farner Copy Share Image
Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Senator Dan Coates, one of the most respected members to have in the Senate, he can't get approved. How do you not… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one who is being himself is going to be approved of all the time. The whole world could love you, but… — Bartholomaus Copy Share Image
Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps… — Louis Caldera Copy Share Image
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
The government has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that you can use in FDA-approved research. So even though there are… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope of their father. As long as they’re under the authority… — Doug Phillips Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot… — Pam Tillis Copy Share Image
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family… The advantage of… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare… — Peter Friedman Copy Share Image
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Is it possible that where the subject is socially approved (tah tah tah TAH tah, it's war) almost no one thinks we're… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image