The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I've got to do get my guys going I'll do it… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
As someone who was like a chief spokeswoman for [Donald Trump] and his campaign manager, it wasn't always relevant to what Americans… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president,… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who… — James Burnham Copy Share Image