Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic… — James Alexander Thom 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
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Climate change is a real consequence of human activity and we have a moral obligation to address this challenge. That means reducing… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image