Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower.… — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault. — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
