THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was… — E. Howard Hunt Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life… — Elizabeth O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death:… — Arthur Hopkins Copy Share Image
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say,… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it,… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation,… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary]… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders… — Joe Greene Copy Share Image