I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . . — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her,… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge.… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will… — Damon Hill Copy Share Image
You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others. — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image