My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It… — Don Ameche Copy Share Image
Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Whether I'm traveling or at home in Seattle, my days rarely play out as it looks on my Outlook calendar - there's… — Jane Park Copy Share Image
As far as the he Taliban goes, it is not one unified organization Some of them are brutal to the population, some… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
X-Pac, I feel terrible that you have to come out here and defend the integrity of a woman who has absolutely none.… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of… — David Simon Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a… — John Christy Copy Share Image
When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment,… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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