In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards. — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared… — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can… — Scott Hall Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking,… — Chuck Robb Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The issues that I think matter, that I think resonate with the voters are, No. 1, defending our freedoms, defending the Constitution… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Mmmm, Kate, the Chief of Security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body then the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice -… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image