There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and… — John Prebble Copy Share Image
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent…They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“I could get used to anything-that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it” — Fyodor Dostoevskyor Copy Share Image
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions, the person who's likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
A product of your life and liberty is your property. Property is the fruit of your labor, the product of your time,… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
“If deceit is at any time excusable,” replied Olivia, reluctantly, “it is when we practise it in self-defence. There are some rare… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky… — Jack Miles Copy Share Image
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community. — Catherine E. Pugh Copy Share Image
Most of you probably already know this but for those who don't, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field… — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed. — Christiaan Rudolf de Wet Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A mouth that speaks without the consent of the brain and heart is not worth to listen to. — Sanji-Paul Arvind Copy Share Image
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image