A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor. — Bill O'Brien Copy Share Image
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes… — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
