War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I hear women are posting their phone numbers on the site for you.” Accompanied by sexy videos and photos. Judd’s eyes gleamed.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington,… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two… — Marc Koska Copy Share Image
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
[President Donald Trump ] trusts the CIA. This is about 17 or so unnamed agencies in an unnamed report that based the… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image