Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
“Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of… — Rumiko Takahashi Copy Share Image
Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in… — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image