Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass.… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel.… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image