Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality.… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all… — Asaram Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two… — Max Burns Copy Share Image
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Howʹd you get here?ʺ I asked. She winked. ʺYouʹre not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist… — Bronwyn Bishop Copy Share Image
People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
