I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers'… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence.… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes… — James Allen Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Neither I nor anyone else in Germany would even consider placing any "conditions" on our possible return to the League of Nations.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make,… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and… — Robert Blatchford Copy Share Image
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it?… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for this crime, whether or not he gave the order to commit the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in… — Ted Ligety Copy Share Image