Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
Usually I'll drive to certain locations over and over again, over a course of months really. And then it might just be… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I would let my fans and people looking from the outside looking in dictate that. But, in my mind I gotta treat… — Lil Herb Copy Share Image
It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live.… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image