When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.… — Charles McPherson Copy Share Image
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
“The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.' — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
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