With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army. — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
“One of the major Lockhart restaurants, Kreuz Market, ships to anywhere in the continental United States.” — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance. — Anonymous 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
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies. — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity,… — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine 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
t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter,… — Roscoe Bartlett Copy Share Image
The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis. — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. — Giorgio Moroder 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
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
Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of… — William Booth Copy Share Image