Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises… — Catherine of Aragon Copy Share Image
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.'… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion. — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to… — Simon van der Meer Copy Share Image
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me.… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells,… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a… — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of… — William James Copy Share Image
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen. — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work. — William Holden Copy Share Image
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image