On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to… — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
