I am very athletic, actually, and I'm good at most sports. But I was never a successful athlete, because I have a… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate… — William James Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato Copy Share Image
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image