The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they… — David Frum Copy Share Image
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group. — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image