His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own,… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the… — John C. Maxwell 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
There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm naive. I will admit that I'm naive. There's a part of me, honestly, to the depths of my soul, that doesn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18,… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party have no education in critical thinking or common sense or common sense perception. None of it. They just seethe… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian.… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image