We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history. — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?' — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
