I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized …One out of every five patients admitted to a… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant… — Plato Copy Share Image
English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think that I am the person who can do all aspects of the job. I think I'm the person best prepared… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh;… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…” He glanced over at her, and she… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get… — Peter Costello Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
