It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark… — Edd Roush Copy Share Image
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“You can't tell me you're not cold in those shorts." "Freezing," she admitted, handing Alex her messenger bag as she got to… — Jena Leigh Copy Share Image
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of Donald Trump's criticisms of President Barack Obama and of Hillary Clinton was that they seemed reluctant to use the words… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual - an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior.… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image