So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and… — Chris Horner Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill… — Vernon Coleman Copy Share Image
Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image