We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families. — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image